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.
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