TY - BOOK AU - Korda,Natasha TI - Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England SN - 9780812236637 AV - PR3069.S45 K67 2002 U1 - 822.3/3 21 PY - 2012///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - House furnishings in literature KW - Housekeeping in literature KW - Property in literature KW - Sex role in literature KW - Women in literature KW - Literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare KW - bisacsh KW - Cultural Studies KW - Gender Studies KW - Medieval and Renaissance Studies KW - Women's Studies N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on Spelling and Editions --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Housekeeping and Household Stuff --; Chapter 2. Household Kates: Domesticating Commodities in The Taming of the Shrew --; Chapter 3. Judicious Oeillades: Supervising Marital Property in The Merry Wives of Windsor --; Chapter 4. The Tragedy of the Handkerchief: Female Paraphernalia and the Properties of Jealousy in Othello --; Chapter 5. Isabellas Rule: Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure --; Conclusion: Household Property/Stage Property --; Notes --; Index --; Acknowledgments; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, and Measure for Measure in relation to early modern England's nascent consumer culture and competing conceptions of property. Drawing evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic manuals, marriage sermons, household inventories, and wills to explore the realities and dramatic representations of women's domestic roles, Natasha Korda departs from traditional accounts of the commodification of women, which maintain that throughout history women have been "trafficked" as passive objects of exchange between men.In the early modern period, Korda demonstrates, as newly available market goods began to infiltrate households at every level of society, women emerged as never before as the "keepers" of household properties. With the rise of consumer culture, she contends, the housewife's managerial function assumed a new form, becoming increasingly centered around caring for the objects of everyday life-objects she was charged with keeping as if they were her own, in spite of the legal strictures governing women's property rights. Korda deftly shows how their positions in a complex and changing social formation allowed women to exert considerable control within the household domain, and in some areas to thwart the rule of fathers and husbands UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202519 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812202519 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812202519/original ER -