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The change in the tragic hero from a noble to an ordinary man on the sixteenth-century London stage. Arden of Feversham and the emergence of domestic tragedy, as well as its relation to the Protestant Reformation's focus on the family and the household. A Woman Killed with Kindness, by Thomas Heywood, and the disparity between real crimes and their representation in Renaissance literature--especially in ballads, drama, and pamphlets--as well as the early modern audience's fascination with stories of untrustworthy intimates. Othello and William Shakespeare's modifications to the genre to include not only the conventions of a troubled marriage, a wife's adultery, and spousal murder but also the politics of race.
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