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Article: Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama.(Book Review)
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- Shakespeare Studies
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- January 1, 2003
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by Wendy Wall Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Who would have thought the Early Modern domestic sphere could be so fascinating and so strange? It is the enormous accomplishment of Wendy Wall's new book to make the Early Modern household the pulsing heart of the nation, the crucible where gendered and sexed subjects took shape, and the locus for powerful fantasies of abjection, empowerment, nurturance, and violence. In conception and in style, Wall challenges old stereotypes about the household as the sober seat where lessons of obedience and self-discipline were instilled and patriarchal order affirmed. There is nothing staid about the domestic sphere ...