Shakespeare and Domestic Loss: Forms of Deprivation, Mourning, and Recuperation

by Heather Dubrow

Book Overview

This 1999 book re-examines some of Shakespeare's best-known texts in the light of their 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 and very telling issues in Shakespearean drama. Heather Dubrow recovers the particular significance of home, especially in relation to gender, male and female subjectivity. She relates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521543495
• ISBN13: 9780521543491
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"