Ebook: Separation Scenes: Domestic Drama in Early Modern England

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Absent Husbands and Unpartnered Wivesin Early Modern England; 1. Housekeeping and Forlorn Travel in Arden of Faversham; 2. The Doorstep and the Exchange in A Warning for Fair Women; 3. One Man's Calling in A Woman Killed with Kindness; 4. Women, Work, and Windows in Women Beware Women; 5. The East India Company and the Domestic Economy in The Launchingof the Mary, or The Seaman's Honest Wife; Epilogue: John and Anne Donneand the Culture of Business; Notes; Bibliography; Index.