Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern EnglandUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 07.03.2012 - 288 Seiten Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, and Measure for Measure in relation to early modern England's nascent consumer culture and competing conceptions of property. Drawing evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic manuals, marriage sermons, household inventories, and wills to explore the realities and dramatic representations of women's domestic roles, Natasha Korda departs from traditional accounts of the commodification of women, which maintain that throughout history women have been "trafficked" as passive objects of exchange between men. |
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... role as keeper of household stuff . Yet I am equally interested in the domes- tic dangers posed by that which was perceived as unfamiliar or unfamilial ; thus , in the second half of this book I examine the figure of the Moor , Othello ...
... role of household subjects is to fill the empty vessel , to ensure that each ... role in defining the precise parameters of this gen- dered division of labor ... keeper " respectively , through the following apiarian analogy : Me thynketh ...
... role in managing the household economy , her oversight of its stuff and provisions , is clearly not a passive one , as the term keeper might suggest ; for her responsibilities include not only saving , storing , and maintaining , but ...
... role as " keeper ” of household stuff no longer seems to involve actively ordering , counting , dividing , distributing , spending , and disposing household stuff , but is here likened to that of the hen who sits passively on the eggs ...
... role as " keeper " underwent an ideological devaluation ; in Smith's version , the wife's nest - sitting no longer produces any profit , no longer " hatcheth the eggs " or " bryng [ eth ] forth the frute " as in Coverdale . Rather , her ...
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Domesticating Commodities in The Taming of the Shrew | 52 |
Supervising Marital Property in The Merry Wives of Windsor | 76 |
Female Paraphernalia and the Properties of Jealousy in Othello | 111 |
Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure | 159 |
Household PropertyStage Property | 192 |
Notes | 213 |
Index | 263 |
Acknowledgments | 273 |
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