Tragicomic Redemptions : Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage /
Valerie Forman contends that three seemingly unrelated domains--new economic theories and practices; the discourses of Christian redemption; and the rise of tragicomedy as the stage's most popular genre--were together crucial to the formulation of a new and paradoxical way of thinking about los...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Stasis and insularity in The merchant of Venice and Twelfth night
- The voyage out: Pericles
- Poverty, surplus value, and theatrical investment in The winter's tale
- Captivity and "free" trade: Fletcher's The island princess and English commerce in the East Indies in the early 1600s
- Balance, circulation, and equity in the "prosperous voyage" of The renegado
- Webster's The devil's law-case, the limits of tragicomic redemption, and tragicomedy's afterlife.