ABSTRACT
This section reiterates and bolsters the argument of the book by using the scope of private honour to analyse the text of two domestic tragedies: Othello and Arden of Faversham. The purpose of this examination is to demonstrate how the concept of private honour and gendered spatial performance can be applied to other forms of literature and art in order to improve current understanding of Renaissance English society and discourse. This conclusion also investigates how private honour was manifested in the lives of men outside of the aristocracy, as well as those individuals whose concepts of private and public were different from the dominant discourse (such as servants). The analyses of the two plays establishes that people who lived on the fringes between private and public were better equipped to navigate the different performances of gender within the two spheres. As seen earlier in the book, many noblemen struggled with the balance of private and public honour, and the anxiety over choosing the correct mode of performance is indicated not only in the prescriptive literature, but also in the popular dramatic works of the time.
