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HOUSEHOLD
Main
Page:
1
Homosexuality existed in Renaissance England but would not have circulated
in discourse about marriage and the household. For further reading see Homosexuality
in Renaissance England by Alan Bray.
2 Gouge, William. Of Domesticall
Duties. The fourth treatise; section four. The introduction to Gouge’s
treatise includes a Biblical justification of everything he plans to state
in the document. Thus basis of his ideas on household relationships stems
from the notion that a woman is to a man as a man is to God.
3 Markham, Gervase. The English
Housewife. p. 5.
Resistance
to Gender Construction:
1 Wrightson, Keith. English Society 1580-1680. p.99
2 Hanawalt, Barbara. "Women in the Household Economy..." p.12
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid. p.14
6 Dolan, Frances. Review of "Women and Property in Early Modern England."
p.283,286
Non-Traditional
Households:
1
Harman, Thomas. "A Caveat for Common Cursitors." p.125
2
Ibid. p.123
3
Woodbridge, Linda. “Jest Books, the Literature of Roguery, and the Vagrant
Poor in Renaissance England.” p.204
4
Ibid.
5
Ibid.
6
Ibid.
THEATER
Cross-Dressing:
1 Stallybrass, Peter. "Transvestism
and the 'body beneath.'" p. 77
2 Rainolds, John. Th' overthrow of
Stage-Playes. p. 96
3 Stallybrass, p. 76; original emphasis
4 Garber, Marjorie. "The Logic of
the Transvestite: The Roaring Girl." p. 221-2, 231-2
5 Stallybrass, p.72
Women
on Stage:
1 Hodgson-Wright, Stephanie. "Beauty,
Chastity, and Wit: Feminising the Centre-Stage." Women and Dramatic
Production 1550-1700, Findlay, et al. p. 42-54
2 Ewart, Andrew. The Great Lovers.
p. 70-72
3 Ewart, p. 65-87
4 Findlay, Alison. "Licensed to Thrill:
Early Restoration Drama." Women and Dramatic Production.
p. 139
RELIGION
Main
Page:
1 Salgado, Gamini.
The Elizabethan Underworld, p. 51
Gendered
Language:
1
Crawford, Patricia. Women and Religion in England 1500-1720. p.
10
2
Ibid.
3
Ibid. p.16, 81-82
Religion
and the Construction of Gender Roles:
1 Crawford, p.16, 81-82
2 Marvell, Andrew. Miscellaneous poems by Andrew Marvell, Esq.
p. 71-98
3 Crawford states, “Since Protestants regarded celibacy as unnatural,
they viewed all unmarried women with disfavour. The lot of the unmarried
woman, or spinster, as the term came to be, was worse under Protestantism.
She had no special role.” p. 47
4 See Sarah Monette's paper “Speaking and Silent Women in Upon Appleton
House” for an interesting analysis concerning various women's speeches
and observed silences within Marvell's “Upon Appleton House.”
5 Crawford,
Women and Religion , p. 45
6 See the chapter
titled "The Word and the Throne: John Knox's The First Blast of the
Trumpet against the Monstruous Regiment of Women", Kate Chedgzoy, Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing for
further analysis concerning female monarchial authority, patriarchy, Protestantism,
legality, and gender within the political context of Queen Mary Tudor's
Act of Parliament of 1554.
7 Knox, John.
The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstruous Regiment of
Women, 1558.
8 Wrightson,
Keith. English Society 1580-1680. p. 92
9 See Chapter 3: "The Gendering of Popular Culture," Tim Harris, editor, Popular
Culture in England, c. 1500-1850.
Prostitution:
1 Salgado, The Elizabethan Underworld,
p. 187
2 Salgado, The Elizabethan Underworld,
p. 49, 53
3 A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
is filled with sexual allusions. The most prominent example of the
woman's body being used sexually at the husband's behest is found in the
Allwit's relationship. Allwit proudly boasts in II, ii, 13-57 how he lives
richly due to Sir Walter Whorehound's kindness. By the close of the play
the reader realizes that Allwit's wife is Whorehound's prostitute hence,
the “free” room and board.
4 Crawford, Women and Religion in
England 1500-1720 , p. 41-42
5 Sharpe, Early Modern England: A
Social History 1550-1760 , p. 234
HYPERTEXT
Forest of Arden:
1 Bevington, "Introduction to As You
Like It." p. 293
Ganymede:
1 This constellation
is still associated with that of Aquila, the eagle. The constellation
is not connected with the moon of Jupiter (Ganymede).
OTHER PAGES
Skimmington:
1 Bristol, Michael. "Everyday Custom and Popular Culture." p.128
Coverture:
1 Dolan, Frances. Review of
"Women and Property in Early Modern England." p.283,286
Marriage Consent:
1 This passage has been edited slightly so that the reader would not have
to decipher the outdated language and spelling in the document.
Gaze:
1 Brown, Michael. "Why the
Photographer Does Not See."
Kix:
1 From the footnotes to Chaste
Maid
Spital-Houses:
1 From the footnotes to Chaste Maid
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