Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 268 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780192692221
Content:
A compelling analysis of the treatment of socio-economic attitudes and behaviours in early modern drama. The volume engages with household management and commerce to create a rich context for theatre's interest in and representations of socio-economic action in a nascent commercial society
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transcription -- Introduction -- Early Modern Commercial Theatre -- Theatre and Economics -- Oeconomy and Commerce -- The Revaluation of Interest -- `Wisdom of Business', or the Transformation of Prudence -- Generic Cross-Pollination -- The Book -- 1 Household Management and Commerce in Early Modern England -- Introduction -- The Household in Classical and Early Modern Writings -- Xenophon's Oeconomicus -- The Aristotelian Oikos -- The Early Modern Oikos -- Tropical Exchanges and the Family as `First Society'
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The Power Axis of Household Government: Marriage -- Household Guardian or `Perpetuall Enemie' -- Early Modern Commerce -- Mercantile Writings -- Unnatural Acquisition: Aristotle and Trade -- Justice in Exchange -- Trade as Godly Calling and the Limits of Sufficiency -- Legitimate Profit -- Mercantilist and Bullionist Writers -- Culture of Credit -- Conclusion -- 2 Oeconomy in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Macbeth -- Introduction -- A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: The Oikos in a Marketplace of Desires -- Liminal Domestic Spaces -- Sexuality as Commodity -- The Logic of the Marketplace
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Household Politics and Private Interests in Macbeth -- The Household as Dramatic Subject -- Household Space -- The Female Body and Household Space -- From Ethics to Efficiency in the Service of Private Interest -- Private Interests and the Motivating Force of Passion -- The Politics of Exchange -- Conclusion -- 3 Mercantile Agency and Service in Othello and The Alchemist -- Introduction -- The Household as `Venture Tripartite': `Wisdom of Business' in The Alchemist -- The Prudent Captain -- Persuasion through Amplification -- The Alchemical Trope
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`Shows of Service' and Mercantile Agency in Othello -- Transnational Travel and Social Mobility -- `Wisdom of Business': Skills and Strategies -- Debasement: Credit and Value -- Jealousy and Envy as Affective Coordinates of a Mobile Society -- Conclusion -- 4 Asynchronous Exchanges in Volpone and Timon of Athens -- Introduction -- Asynchronous Exchange and Accumulation in Volpone -- The Temporality of the Gift -- Strategic Delay: The Temporality and Intentionality of the Promise -- Delay as Pleasure Principle -- Mastery and Self-Aggrandizement -- Delay and Dilation: Principles of Credit and Plot
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Timon of Athens: Competing Paradigms of Exchange -- The Gift as Investment -- The Moral Economy of the Gift -- Futurity and the Failure of the Promise -- Friendship and Fortune -- Exploring the Interval: Delay and Dilation as Plot Devices -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Oeconomy and Commerce -- The Discontents of Social Mobility -- The `Architecture of Fortune' and the Future -- Works Cited -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780192866813
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Enderwitz, Anne, 1974 - Economies of early modern drama Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023 ISBN 9780192866813
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Wirtschaft
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Jonson, Ben 1572-1637
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Wirtschaft
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Middleton, Thomas 1580-1627
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Wirtschaft
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Frühneuenglisch
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Drama
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Wirtschaft
Author information:
Enderwitz, Anne 1974-
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