Private Matters and Public Culture in Post-Reformation England:

According to Holinshed's Chronicles, Thomas Arden was murdered by his wife, her lover, and a number of accomplices in 1551. Holinshed apologizes for including in his state history what seems to be "but a private matter," although at the same time he asserts that the "horribleness...

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1. Verfasser: Orlin, Lena Cowen (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:According to Holinshed's Chronicles, Thomas Arden was murdered by his wife, her lover, and a number of accomplices in 1551. Holinshed apologizes for including in his state history what seems to be "but a private matter," although at the same time he asserts that the "horribleness" of the crime justifies public retelling. Alice Arden's crime was popularized in Arden of Feversham ( 1592), a play which initiated the genre of domestic tragedy and thatthrust private conflict onto the stage of public discourse.Weaving a complex tapestry out of intellectual history and literary analysis, Lena Cowen Orlin examines how the private issues of contentious marital relations and household governance became public—through conduct manuals, sermons, political tracts, and philosophical treatises, as well as domestic tragedies—in the culture of post-Reformation England. Orlin first draws on rich archival evidence in telling the story of the Ardens. Although Arden of Feversham fulfilled the conservative project of confirming patriarchal authority in the home at a time of social upheaval, Orlin finds that later domestic tragedies such as A Woman Killed with Kindness and Othello were less predictable in their aims. And while other forms of public literature provided blueprints for ordering the household, domestic tragedies continued to reveal the tensions lying under the surface there: inconsistencies in the prescribed role of women, contradictions within patriarchal ideology, conflicts between political and economic interests in the household, inadequacies in the old ideals of friendship and benefice, and anxieties about the control of material possessions
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (336 pages) 13 b&w illustrations
ISBN:9781501737381
DOI:10.7591/9781501737381

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