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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Forman, Valerie
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2008.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.