Household Business: Domestic Plays of Early Modern England (Mental and Cultural World of Tudor and Stuart England)

Explores a native English theater genre that flourished during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and portrayed domestic conflict among English characters of the middle ranks of society. At a time when the conventional family was seen as the foundation of social order, the plays stressed the contradictions and struggles attending marriage and the patriarchal family. Canadian card order number: C96-931485-X. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.