Shakespeare and domestic loss : forms of deprivation, mourning, and recuperation
This 1999 book examines Shakespeare's engagement with the forms of deprivation which threatened domestic security in early modern England. Burglary, the loss of home, and the early deaths of parents emerge as central to Shakespeare's best-known plays and poems, related here to contemporary social problems (notably crime), and early modern cultural texts.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
259 pages
9780521543491, 0521543495
1064261598
1. Introduction: the circular staircase; 2. 'The forefended place': burglary; 3. 'No place to fly to': loss of dwellings; 4. 'I fear there will a worse come in his place': the early death of parents; 5. Conclusion: the art of losing; Index.
Originally published: 1999