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Domestic tragedy, on the face of it the simplest and most unpretentious of tragic forms, is in fact potentially one of the most ambiguous, for almost every aspect of domestic tragedies is typically susceptible of being read on more than one level. Domestic tragedy, by definition, is set at home, both in the sense of taking place in England rather than being set abroad, as so many other tragedies are, and also in the sense that it is located in one or more private houses rather than in the more public space of the court. At the same time as
Introduction Eating in a domestic setting in the company of friends and non-resident kin is a significant form of social occasion in contemporary England. Most people eat out occasionally at the homes of friends or non-resident family members. In 2015, 22 per cent of respondents never ate with friends and only 19 per cent never with kin. People derive exceptionally high levels of enjoyment and satisfaction from such occasions, among the reasons being the particularly high value placed on hospitality in most societies, with the invitation to eat a full meal
never attended school, and once settled in Lusaka, she decided to find paid work. Her older sister’s husband was a domestic worker for a Black household in the affluent suburb of Roma, and he helped Elizabeth to secure a job in his employer’s home. In this role, Elizabeth cared for three children, cleaned the house, and helped prepare meals. She stayed in the job for several years, living with her sister and
2543Chap5 16/7/03 9:58 am Page 104 5 The Domestic Politics model Company-specific differences between ExxonMobil, Shell and Statoil can shed light on differences in their climate strategies to only a limited extent. Chapter 4 revealed that company-specific features with implications for climate strategies are marked more by similarities than differences. The CA model is also incapable of explaining changes in corporate climate strategies. We explore whether the national political contexts in which the companies operate prove more capable of explaining
In a theatre that self-consciously cultivated its audiences' imagination, how and what did playgoers ‘see’ on the stage? This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process, considering a range of printed and documentary evidence for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households. It then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity. The book therefore offers a way of understanding theatrical representations based around a truly interdisciplinary study of the interaction between literary and historical methods. The opening chapters use household manuals, court depositions, wills and inventories to reconstruct the morality of household space and its affective meanings, and to explore ways of imaging these spaces. Further chapters discuss Arden of Faversham, Two Lamentable Tragedies, A Woman Killed With Kindness and A Yorkshire Tragedy, considering how the dynamics of the early modern house were represented on the stage. They identify a grammar of domestic representation stretching from subtle identifications of location to stage properties and the use of stage space. Investigating the connections between the seen and the unseen, between secret and revelation, between inside and outside, household and community, these plays are shown to offer a uniquely developed domestic mimesis.
5 Domestic survival strategies: the Serbian retreat, 1915 November 5th was full of rumours. Men were passing through all morning, thousands of them like ants against the sky when they had climbed the hilly road and reappeared on the crest. For some curious reason it did not occur to any of us that what we were watching so calmly was our entire army starting on their retreat across the snowy mountains of Albania to the Adriatic coast.1 Bulgaria entered the war at the end of September 1915, joining forces with Germany and Austria, and, as we have seen, the
all sorts of people, both foreign and domestic. In most cases Hatton’s own role cannot be teased out of the Council records, but a few examples of his personal role include arbitrating between two royal servants over a house in 1578; ‘appeasing’ some inhabitants of Northaw, Hertfordshire, where the Earl of Warwick was carrying out enclosures, in 1579; investigating the accounts of the treasurer
This chapter analyses the specificity of colonial public and domestic architecture and focuses on the way that these forms of architecture developed out of a complex relationship with both metropolitan and indigenous styles of architecture. These new forms of architecture were both a reflection of and embodiment of cultural norms at a stereotypical level – how the British would like to be perceived, how they wanted their rule and their colonising to be seen. Whilst public colonial architectural space has been analysed in some detail
extended metaphorical renderings of houses and home spaces – domestic metaphors that she uses repeatedly across her novels to ritualise and spatialise time and loss. This essay explores aspects of these metaphors – and the contribution they make to knowledge about grief – in relation to the domestic acts of two relatively under-examined female characters, Sylvia Foster and Glory Boughton, in Robinson's first and third novels, Housekeeping and Home. While there is arguably no limit to experiences of grief in Robinson's novels
Here follows part nine , which deals with familial and domestic matters. This part has six chapters: the first addresses how a wife should be guided , and how one may know if she is good or not; the second , how she should be looked after. The third posits that both spouses ought to love one another; the fourth , that they ought to live in peace. The