Dangerous Familiars UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS This multi-contributor

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Dangerous Familiars UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS This multi-contributorLooking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother. A gripping exploration of seventeenth century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why. Frances E. Dolan examines stories ranging from the