Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism

Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism
ISBN-10
1403982465
ISBN-13
9781403982469
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
281
Language
English
Published
2003-11-14
Publisher
Springer
Author
L. Woodbridge

Description

In this collection 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, and from early bodily-injury insurance schemes to The Merchant of Venice .

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