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Book Synopsis
This book considers a range of printed and documentary evidence, the majority previously unpublished, for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households; and it then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. ‘My narrow-prying neighbours blab’: moral perceptions of the early modern household
2. ‘Choose thee a bed and hangings for a chamber; Take with thee everything that hath thy mark’: objects and spaces in the Early Modern House
3. Arden of Faversham
4. Two Lamentable Tragedies
5. A Woman Killed with Kindness
6. A Yorkshire Tragedy
Conclusion

Appendix 1. Objects in all urban rooms
Appendix 2. Objects in rooms in all Canterbury houses
Appendix 3. Objects in Canterbury office-holders’ rooms
Appendix 4. Percentage of items in each bracket of total inventoried wealth
Appendix 5. Percentage of valued items in each bracket of inventoried wealth

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/10/2006
      ISBN13: 9780719065446, 978-0719065446
      ISBN10: 719065445

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book considers a range of printed and documentary evidence, the majority previously unpublished, for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households; and it then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. ‘My narrow-prying neighbours blab’: moral perceptions of the early modern household
      2. ‘Choose thee a bed and hangings for a chamber; Take with thee everything that hath thy mark’: objects and spaces in the Early Modern House
      3. Arden of Faversham
      4. Two Lamentable Tragedies
      5. A Woman Killed with Kindness
      6. A Yorkshire Tragedy
      Conclusion

      Appendix 1. Objects in all urban rooms
      Appendix 2. Objects in rooms in all Canterbury houses
      Appendix 3. Objects in Canterbury office-holders’ rooms
      Appendix 4. Percentage of items in each bracket of total inventoried wealth
      Appendix 5. Percentage of valued items in each bracket of inventoried wealth

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