Shakespeare's domestic economies

By Natasha Korda

Subjects: Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, criticism and interpretation, Housekeeping in literature, Women, Ameublement dans la littérature, Femmes dans la littérature, House furnishings in literature, Views on sex role, Sex role, LITERARY CRITICISM, Property, Travail domestique dans la littérature, Women in literature, Property in literature, Shakespeare, Views on property, Characters, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, characters, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Sex role in literature

Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.