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Article: Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2004
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Wendy Wall. Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv + 292 pp. index. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-521-80849-9.
In this rich and surprising study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English drama in the context of middle-class housework and nationalist ideology, Wendy Wall takes further the turn toward materialist cultural analysis begun in Karen Newman's Fashioning Femininity and Patricia Fumerton's Cultural Aesthetics. Opening with a survey of the assumptions and verbal formulas of conduct books and domestic manuals from the middle 1500s, Wall points to ...