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Blood and home in early modern drama : domestic identity on the renaissance stage
- Title
- Blood and home in early modern drama : domestic identity on the renaissance stage / Ariane M. Balizet.
- Author
- Balizet, Ariane M.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
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- Description
- xii, 197 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In this volume, the author argues that blood was, crucially, a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17th century England. Early modern English drama vividly addressed contemporary debates over an expanding idea of "the domestic," which encompassed the domus as well as sex, parenthood, household order, the relationship between home and state, and the connections between family honor and national identity. The author contends that the domestic ideology expressed by theatrical depictions of marriage and household order is one built on the simultaneous familiarity and violence inherent to blood. The theatrical relation between blood and home is far more intricate than the idealized language of the familial bloodline; the home was itself a bloody place, with domestic bloodstains signifying a range of experiences including religious worship, sex, murder, birth, healing, and holy justice. Focusing on four bleeding figure -- the Bleeding Bride, Bleeding Husband, Bleeding Child, and Bleeding Patient -- the author argues that the household blood of the early modern stage not only expressed the violence and conflict occasioned by domestic ideology, but also established the home as a site that alternately reified and challenged patriarchal authority"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture ; 25
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 25.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-6890
- ISBN
- 9780415720656
- 0415720656
- 9781315866857 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013047317
- OCLC
- 864662446
- Author
- Balizet, Ariane M., author.
- Title
- Blood and home in early modern drama : domestic identity on the renaissance stage / Ariane M. Balizet.
- Publisher
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture ; 25Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 25.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500 - 1600
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-6890