Neighbourly Relationships in Early Modern Drama
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Neighbourly Relationships in Early Modern Drama

Staged Communities

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eBook - ePub

Neighbourly Relationships in Early Modern Drama

Staged Communities

About this book

The book offers the first sustained examination of neighbourly relationships in early modern English drama, situating the close analyses of the selected plays within contemporary prescriptive literature (such as sermons and conduct books), letters, diaries, pamphlets, ballads, wills, proverbs, as well as the lived realities of early modern neighbourhoods as glimpsed in the historical and legal archives. The originality of the book lies in its topic, in the plays chosen for analysis, including Gammer Gurton's Needle, written in the 1550s and believed to be the first printed vernacular English comedy, and in the revisionist close readings on offer. The plays span the period between 1550s and 1620s, belong to different genres, and were aimed at different audiences and written for different kinds of playhouses, allowing for conclusions to be drawn about the way genre shapes the treatment of neighbourly relationships, as well as revealing continuities and changes in this treatment over the period under study.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040443682
Topic
Literatur
Subtopic
Drama

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: Neighbouring in Early Modern England
  10. 1 ‘[A] Neighbour of Yours … Up She Took a Needle or a Pin’: Neighbourly Tensions in Gammer Gurton’s Needle
  11. 2 ‘I Say Shees My Deadly Enemie’: Female Neighbourly Quarrels and Male Alliances in The Two Angry Women of Abington
  12. 3 Alliances and Divisions: Female Neighbourly Networks in The Merry Wives of Windsor
  13. 4 ‘[S]o Near a Neighbour, and So Unkind’: Home and Neighbourhood in Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women
  14. Conclusion
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index