Emma Whipday is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University.

'This is an elegantly written, important book: it firmly situates Shakespeare's works in the wider culture of his time and makes particularly enlightening links between cheap print, domestic drama and canonical tragedy.' Tom Macfaul, University of Oxford

• Introduction: Shakespeare's domestic tragedies; 1. Home: contesting domestic order in The Taming of the Shrew; 2. Household: performing domestic relationships in Hamlet; 3. House: staging domestic space in Othello; 4. Neighbourhood: crossing domestic boundaries in Macbeth; Afterword – outside domestic tragedy in King Lear.

Emma Whipday is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University.

'This is an elegantly written, important book: it firmly situates Shakespeare's works in the wider culture of his time and makes particularly enlightening links between cheap print, domestic drama and canonical tragedy.' Tom Macfaul, University of Oxford

• Introduction: Shakespeare's domestic tragedies; 1. Home: contesting domestic order in The Taming of the Shrew; 2. Household: performing domestic relationships in Hamlet; 3. House: staging domestic space in Othello; 4. Neighbourhood: crossing domestic boundaries in Macbeth; Afterword – outside domestic tragedy in King Lear.