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

Download or read book Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism written by L. Woodbridge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 .