Shakespeare's domestic economies
Subtitle: gender and property in early modern England
By: Natasha Korda.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women; House furnishings in literature; Housekeeping in literature; Property in literature; Sex role in literature; Women 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Housekeeping and household stuff; title: Household Kates: domesticating commodities in The taming of the shrew; title: Judicious oeillades: supervising marital property in The merry wives of Windsor; title: The tragedy of the handkerchief: female paraphernalia and the properties of jealousy in Othello; title: Isabella's rule: singlewomen and the properties of poverty in Measure for measure.