'Household Business'
The domestic play flourished on the English popular stage during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Its roots were predominantly native, rather than classical, and its mainspring was the staging of domestic conflict amongst English characters from the middle ranks of society. ''Household Business'' traces the genre''s origins in the cycle plays of medieval England and examines its...
The domestic play flourished on the English popular stage during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Its roots were predominantly native, rather than classical, and its mainspring was the staging of domestic conflict amongst English characters from the middle ranks of society. ''Household Business'' traces the genre''s origins in the cycle plays of medieval England and examines its...
