{"product_id":"separation-scenes-ann-c-christensen-9780803290655","title":"Separation Scenes: Domestic Drama in Early Modern England","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis analysis of five exemplary domestic plays--the anonymous \u003ci\u003eArden of Faversham\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Warning for Fair Women\u003c\/i\u003e (1590s), Thomas Heywood's \u003ci\u003eA Woman Killed with Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e (1607), Thomas Middleton's \u003ci\u003eWomen Beware Women\u003c\/i\u003e (ca. 1613), and Walter Mountfort's \u003ci\u003eT\u003ci\u003eh\u003c\/i\u003ee Launching of the Mary, or The Seaman's Honest Wife\u003c\/i\u003e (1632)--offers a new approach to the emerging ideology of the private and public, or what Ann C. Christensen terms \"the tragedy of the separate spheres.\" Feminist scholarship has identified the fruitful gaps between theories and practices of household government in early modern Europe, while work on the global Renaissance attends to commercial expansion, cross-cultural encounters, and colonial settlements. \u003ci\u003eSeparation Scenes\u003c\/i\u003e brings these critical concerns together to expose the intimate and disruptive relationships between the domestic culture and business culture of early modern England. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeparation Scenes\u003c\/i\u003e argues that domestic plays make the absence of husbands for business the subject of tragedy by focusing not on where men traveled but on whom and what they left behind. Elements that critics have rightly associated with domestic tragedy--adultery, sensational murders, and the lavishly articulated operations of domestic life--define this world, which, Christensen argues, was equally shaped by the absence of husbands. Her interpretations of these domestic plays invite us to historicize and further complicate the seemingly universal binary between a feminine \"private sphere\" and a masculine \"public sphere.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeparation Scenes \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates how domestic drama played an active, dynamic, and critical role in deliberating the costs of commercial travel as it disrupted domestic conduct and prompted realignments within the home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann C. Christensen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803290659\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803290655\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Ann C. Christensen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453393940735,"sku":"9780803290655","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_41215274-a64a-4e21-a328-64f5dc8bfe1a.jpg?v=1777300011","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/separation-scenes-ann-c-christensen-9780803290655","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}