Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama

Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge conceptions of national identity. With a detailed account of household practices, this study interprets plays on the London stage in reference to the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources, Wall reveals that domesticity was represented as familiar as well as exotic. She analyzes a wide range of plays including some now little-known as well as key works of the early modern period.

Author: Wendy Wall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/02/2006
Pages: 308
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780521030038

About the Author
Wall, Wendy: - Wendy Wall is Associate Professor of English Literature at Northwestern University and a scholar of early modern literature and culture. She is the author of The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance (Cornell University Press, 1993) and co-editor of the journal Renaissance Drama. Wall has published widely on print technology, voyeurism, women's writing, poetry, housework, and early modern culture.

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