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The book offers the first sustained examination of neighbourly relationships in early modern English drama, situating the close analyses of the selected plays within contemporary prescriptive literature (such as sermons and conduct books), letters, diaries, pamphlets, ballads, wills, proverbs, as well as the lived realities of early modern neighbourhoods as glimpsed in the historical and legal archives. The originality of the book lies in its topic, in the plays chosen for analysis, including Gammer Gurton's Needle, written in 1550s and believed to be the first printed vernacular English comedy, and in the revisionist close readings on offer. The plays span the period between 1550s and 1620s, belong to different genres, and were aimed at different audiences and written for different kinds of playhouses, allowing for conclusions to be drawn about the way genre shapes the treatment of neighbourly relationships as well as revealing continuities and changes in this treatment over the period under study.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Neighbouring in Early Modern England
Chapter 1: '[A] neighbour of yours [...] up she took a needle or a pin': Neighbourly Tensions in Gammer Gurton's Needle
Chapter 2: 'I say shees my deadly enemie': Female Neighbourly Quarrels and Male Alliances in The Two Angry Women of Abington
Chapter 3: Alliances and Divisions: Female Neighbourly Networks in The Merry Wives of Windsor
Chapter 4: '[S]o near a neighbour, and so unkind': Home and Neighbourhood in Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
