| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Early modern cultural studies |
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Early modern cultural studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Monetary Compensation for Injuries to the Body, A.D. 602-1697 -- Commerce, Community, and Nostalgia in The Comedy of Errors -- Scene Stealers: Autolycus, The Winter's Tale and Economic Criticism -- On a Certain Tendency in Economic Criticism of Shakespeare -- Exchange Value and Empiricism in the Poetry of George Herbert -- The Work and the Gift: Notes Toward an Investigation -- Material Dispossessions and Counterfeit Investments: The Economies of Twelfth Night -- Gift Exchange and Social Hierarchy in Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury -- Taking Excess, Exceeding Account: Aristotle meets The Merchant of Venice -- The Lead Casket: Capital, Mercantilism, and The Merchant of Venice -- The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel: Launcelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice -- Freeing Daughters on Open Markets: The Incest Clause in The Merchant of Venice -- Usury and Counterfeiting in Wilson's The Three Ladies of London and The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London and in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure -- Middleton and Debt in Timon of Athens -- Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure -- Fetish and Poem: Ben Jonson's Dilemma |
| Summary |
Literary scholars, theorists, and historians deploy New Economic techniques to illuminate English Renaissance literature in fresh ways. Contributors variously explore poetry's precarious perch between gift and commodity; the longing for family in The Comedy of Errors as symbolically expressing the alienating pressures of mercantilism; Measure for Measure's representation of singlewomen and the feminization of poverty; the collision between two views of money in a possible collaboration between Shakespeare and Middleton; the cultural spread of an accounting mentality and quantitative thinking; and money as it crosses the frontier between price and pricelessness, from early bodily-injury insurance schemes to The Merchant of Venice |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Economics
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Economics in literature.
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Economic history
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Economics
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Economics in literature
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 16th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89000378
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Woodbridge, Linda
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Palgrave Connect (Online service)
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| ISBN |
9781403982469 |
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1403982465 |
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