A01=Geraldo U. de Sousa
Act III
architectural symbolism
Author_Geraldo U. de Sousa
Banquo's Ghost
Banquo’s Ghost
Brabantio's House
Brabantio’s House
Cantino Planisphere
caravaggio
castle
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Ce Ne
Civitates Orbis Terrarum
conventions
Cruell Murthers
Dead Man
domestic space in Shakespearean tragedy
Early English Classical Tragedies
early modern domesticity
elizabethan
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eq_biography-true-stories
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Fynes Moryson
gender in theatre
Gertrude's Closet
Gertrude’s Closet
Gloucester's House
Gloucester’s House
king
Kronborg Castle
Le Chevalier De La Charrette
lear
Lear's Kingdom
Lear’s Kingdom
Leo Africanus
Macbeth's Castle
macbeths
Macbeth’s Castle
material culture studies
merisi
michelangelo
Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio
National Biography
Perfect Murder
Peter Holland
phenomenology of space
Salomon De Caus
social history analysis
stage
Strange Aduentures
Weird Sisters
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754668862
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Bringing together methods, assumptions and approaches from a variety of disciplines, Geraldo U. de Sousa's innovative study explores the representation, perception, and function of the house, home, household, and family life in Shakespeare's great tragedies. Concentrating on King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, de Sousa's examination of the home provides a fresh look at material that has been the topic of fierce debate. Through a combination of textual readings and a study of early modern housing conditions, accompanied by analyses that draw on anthropology, architecture, art history, the study of material culture, social history, theater history, phenomenology, and gender studies, this book demonstrates how Shakespeare explores the materiality of the early modern house and evokes domestic space to convey interiority, reflect on the habits of the mind, interrogate everyday life, and register elements of the tragic journey. Specific topics include the function of the disappearance of the castle in King Lear, the juxtaposition of home-centered life in Venice and nomadic, 'unhoused' wandering in Othello, and the use of special lighting effects to reflect this relationship, Hamlet's psyche in response to physical space, and the redistribution of domestic space in Macbeth. Images of the house, home, and household become visually and emotionally vibrant, and thus reflect, define, and support a powerful tragic narrative.
Geraldo U. de Sousa, Professor of English at the University of Kansas, is the author of Shakespeare's Cross-Cultural Encounters and editor of Mediterranean Studies. He has published extensively on Renaissance drama and culture.
