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Shakespeare on Stage
American Shakespeare Center, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. To Jun. 16, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, The Merchant of Venice. To Nov. 23, 2012.
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Henry IV, Part One. To Jun. 24, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, The Lion in Winter. To Nov. 24, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, A Midsummer Night's Dream. To Jun. 14, 2012.
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Huswifery

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A short list of the housewife's duties...*

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Footnotes

  1. A list of duties

    First, a training up of her children and maids in the fear of God, with prayers and catechizing, and all religious duties.

    Secondly, a curing and healing of all wounds and sores with her own hands; which skill either she brought with her, or she takes care she shall learn it of some religious neighbour.

    Thirdly, a providing for her family in such sort, as that neither they want a competent sustentation [sustenance], nor her husband be brought in debt.

    (From the Works of George Herbert, ed. F.E. Hutchinson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953, p. 239.)