{"product_id":"household-business-2","title":"'Household Business'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe domestic play flourished on the English popular stage during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Its roots were predominantly native, rather than classical, and its mainspring was the staging of domestic conflict amongst English characters from the middle ranks of society. \u003cem\u003e'Household Business'\u003c\/em\u003e traces the genre's origins in the cycle plays of medieval England and examines its aesthetic configurations in relation to extra-literary discourses and practices that underwrote Renaissance ideologies of private life. At a time when the orthodox view of the family defined it as the foundation of the social order, a number of domestic dramas took a more critical perspective, stressing the contradictions and struggles that attend marriage and the patriarchal family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to well-known domestic dramas as \u003cem\u003eA Woman Killed with Kindness\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eArden of Feversham\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Witch of Edmonton\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Yorkshire Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e, Viviana Comensoli analyzes less well-studied plays as \u003cem\u003eA Warning for Fair Women\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTwo Lamentable Tragedies\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Late Lancashire Witches\u003c\/em\u003e. The book also provides an extensive and timely assessment of domestic comedy, demonstrating how plays such as \u003cem\u003eThe London Prodigal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fair Maid of Bristow\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Honest Whore\u003c\/em\u003e (Parts I and II) resist homiletic paradigms in favour of a more dialectical dramaturgy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Viviana Comensoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56219043266940,"sku":null,"price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442658011.jpg?v=1768195590","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/household-business-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}