Shakespeare and Domestic Loss: Forms of Deprivation, Mourning, and Recuperation

by Heather Dubrow

Overview

This book reexamines some of Shakespeare's best-known texts in the light of their engagement with the forms of deprivation that threatened domestic security in early modern England. Burglary, the loss of home, and the early deaths of parents emerge as central and very telling issues in Shakespearean drama. Dubrow relates the plays to Shakespeare's poetry (The Rape of Lucrece and the sonnets), and to early modern cultural texts such as the literature of roguery; she also introduces illuminating perspectives from contemporary social problems (notably crime), twentieth-century poetry, and popular culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521626330
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/28/1999
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture , #32
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the circular staircase; 2. 'The forefended place': burglary; 3. 'No place to fly to': loss of dwellings; 4. 'I fear there will a worse come in his place': the early death of parents; 5. Conclusion: the art of losing; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"A good, graceful book" Bibliotheque D'Humanisme

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