dc.contributor.author | Holderness, G. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-28T15:01:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-09-28T15:01:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Holderness , G 2010 , ' Cleaning house: the courtly and the popular in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor’ ' , Critical Survey , vol. 22 , no. 1 , pp. 26-40 . https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2010.220102 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0011-1570 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/6515 | |
dc.description | Original article can be found at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ Copyright Berghahn Journals [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA] | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper explores the controversy as to whether The Merry Wives of Windsor is a celebration of royal and aristocratic power and of an imagined national community, or a suburban comedy whose viewpoint is that of the contemporary English middle-class. Drawing on recent work on female authority in household and community, it is suggested that Shakespeare's Windsor is not only discontinuous with the culture of nobility, but is presented as a parallel world or alternative universe where things are done quite differently. The play thus engages in a critique of the aristocratic values embodied in the Order of the Garter, and offers an alternative source of power in the domestic lives of ordinary women. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Critical Survey | |
dc.title | Cleaning house: the courtly and the popular in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor’ | en |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Humanities | |
dc.contributor.institution | Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute | |
dc.contributor.institution | English Literature and Creative Writing | |
dc.contributor.institution | English Literature | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.3167/cs.2010.220102 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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