Staging Domesticity
Subtitle: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521030038
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Theatre, drama; Literary Criticism; Plays / Drama; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama / British & Irish; English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan,; English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: In his 1919 paper, "The Uncanny," Freud famously undertakes a semantic analysis of the German word "heimlich," tracing its transformation from one set of related meanings-as intimate, familiar, comfortable, and belonging to the home-into superficially opposite definitions.