TITLE

Being Mistress Eyre in Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday and Deloney's The Gentle Craft

AUTHOR(S)

CHRISTENSEN, ANN C.

PUB. DATE

December 2008

SOURCE

Comparative Drama;Winter2008, Vol. 42 Issue 4, p451

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article examines the contradictory impulses inherent in the portrayal of a tradesman's wife in late sixteenth-century and early seventh-century English literature that was concerned with the urban merchant milieu. The literary attempts to place the tradesman's wife figure in the context of England's transition to mercantilism in the late sixteenth century are discussed. Other topics include mercantile expansion through metonymy and synecdoche, the merry wives of Windsor who challenge various notions of hierarchy, and characters that seem to be a drain on the domestic economy.

ACCESSION #

35751391

Tags: ENGLISH literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History & criticism;  WOMEN -- Employment -- Research;  BUSINESSMEN in literature;  MERCANTILE system;  SYNECDOCHE

 

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