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Dangerous Familiars - Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 (Paperback)
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Dangerous Familiars - Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 (Paperback)
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Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early
modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed
most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in
the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or
mother. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of
domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask
why.Frances E. Dolan examines stories ranging from the profoundly
disturbing to the comically macabre: of husband murder, wife
murder, infanticide, and witchcraft. She surveys trial transcripts,
confessions, and scaffold speeches, as well as pamphlets, ballads,
popular plays based on notorious crimes, and such well-known works
as The Tempest, Othello, Macbeth, and The Winter's Tale. Citing
contemporary analogies between the politics of household and
commonwealth, she shows how both legal and literary narratives
attempt to restore the order threatened by insubordinate
dependents.
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