Staging Domesticity
Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama
Part of Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
- Author: Wendy Wall, Northwestern University, Illinois
- Date Published: November 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521030038
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What role does food and cooking play in how people imagine themselves and their communities? In this book Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge crucial conceptions of national identity. Rich with a detailed account of household practices in the period, Staging Domesticity reads plays on the London stage in the light of the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources on wetnursing, laundering, sewing, medical care and butchery, Wall shows that domesticity was represented as deeply familiar but also enticingly alien. Wall analyses a wide range of the repertoire, including some now little-known plays, as well as key works in the period by Shakespeare and others. Wall concludes that, rather than dramatizations of only court-based and aristocratic domestic life, literature of the period drew on work from the more common household.
Read more- The first book to examine early cookbooks and take seriously what they say about home, gender and nation
- A useful resource in documenting the unexpected ingredients used in cooking and medical care: e.g. lice, skulls, umbilical cords, live animals, herbs, minerals
- Shows that literature can help to articulate various conceptions of national identity and community
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521030038
- length: 308 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: in the nations' kitchen
1. Familiarity and pleasure in the English household guide, 1500–1700
2. Needles and birches: pedagogy, domesticity, and the advent of English comedy
3. Why does Puck sweep? Shakespearean fairies and the politics of cleaning
4. The erotics of milk and live food, or, ingesting early modern Englishness
5. Tending to bodies and boys: queer physic in Knight of the Burning Pestle
6. Blood in the kitchen: service, taste, and violence in domestic drama
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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