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This chapter looks at domestic life in The Duchess of Malfi and Arden of Faversham. Each of these plays is dominated by a female character and each has as its core a private domestic space. In each play, this space is ultimately destroyed by murderous impulses. In most other respects, the two plays are very different, but looking at them together permits a consideration of the relationship between women and the domestic sphere to which they were often relegated and of the different forms that feminine transgression may take.
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Guy-Bray, S. (2019). Feminine Transgression and Normal Domesticity. In: Loughnane, R., Semple, E. (eds) Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00892-5_12
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