Domestic tragedy was an innovative genre, suggesting that the lives
and sufferings of ordinary people were worthy of the dramatic scope
of tragedy. In this compelling study, Whipday revises the narrative
of Shakespeare's plays to show how this genre, together with
neglected pamphlets, ballads, and other forms of 'cheap print'
about domestic violence, informed some of Shakespeare's greatest
works. Providing a significant reappraisal of Hamlet, Othello, and
Macbeth, the book argues that domesticity is central to these
plays: they stage how societal and familial pressures shape
individual agency; how the integrity of the house is associated
with the body of the housewife; and how household transgressions
render the home permeable. Whipday demonstrates that Shakespeare
not only appropriated constructions of the domestic from domestic
tragedies, but that he transformed the genre, using heightened
language, foreign settings, and elite spheres to stage familiar
domestic worlds.
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