1st Edition
Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage
Introduction 1. The Bleeding Bride: Consummation and The "Fight of Love" in Othello, As You Like It, and Cymbeline 2. The Bleeding Husband: Cuckoldry and Murder in Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women 3. The Bleeding Child: Sons and Daughters in The Spanish Tragedy, Henry VI, and Titus Andronicus 4. The Bleeding Patient: Honor and Bloodline in The Duchess of Malfi, The Maid’s Tragedy, and El médico de su honra 5. Afterword
Biography
Ariane M. Balizet is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Texas Christian University, USA. Her research on blood, bodies, and gender in early modern drama and contemporary popular culture has appeared or is forthcoming in Early Modern Literary Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, and Women’s Studies.
"Ariane Balizet cogently argues that blood on the early modern stage makes public the domestic rites and habits of private life and that in so doing, it estranges viewers, often violently, from everyday experience and, most importantly, from early modern hierarchies of gender and power." – Sujata Iyengar, Professor of English, University of Georgia, USA, and author of Shakespeare’s Medical Language (2011)
