Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521808491)

Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge conceptions of national identity. With a detailed account of household practices, this study interprets plays on the London stage in reference to the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources, Wall reveals that domesticity was represented as "familiar" as well as "exotic". She analyzes a wide range of plays including some now little-known as well as key works of the early modern period.

Author: Wendy Wall, Wall Wendy
ISBN-10: 0521808499
ISBN-13: 9780521808491
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/21/2002
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2002 pg. 103