Separation Scenes: Domestic Drama in Early Modern England
Ann C. Christensen
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Hardback. This analysis of five exemplary domestic plays offers a new approach to the emerging ideology of the private and public, or what Ann C. Christensen terms "the tragedy of the separate spheres". Separation Scenes exposes the intimate and disruptive relationships between the domestic culture and business culture of early modern England. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 318 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 621.
This analysis of five exemplary domestic plays—the anonymous Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women (1590s), Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607), Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women (ca. 1613), and Walter Mountfort’s The Launching of the Mary, or The Seaman’s Honest Wife (1632)—offers a new approach to the emerging ideology of the private and public, or what Ann C. Christensen terms “the tragedy of the separate spheres.” Feminist scholarship has identified the fruitful gaps between theories and practices of household government in early modern Europe, while work on the global Renaissance attends to commercial expansion, cross-cultural ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
Series
Early Modern Cultural Studies Series
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803290655
SKU
V9780803290655
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About Ann C. Christensen
Ann C. Christensen is an associate professor of English at the University of Houston.
Reviews for Separation Scenes: Domestic Drama in Early Modern England
"Christensen's study is a welcome addition to the excellent studies of early modern domestic drama that have appeared in recent years . . . especially in its fresh readings of, and original insights into, plays that are now receiving much deserved, though delayed, attention."—Iman Sheeha, English "Separation Scenes is strong, and necessary, in the way that it "notices" and analyzes aspects ... Read more