Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare

Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare argues that practical texts and plays are "equipment for living": practical texts offer strategies for navigating England's culture of credit, and plays explore credit's dangers and possibilities. Dramatic texts show what it feels like to live in credit culture: to live inside a fiction.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Reckoning reputation


• 2: Friendly credit and its dangers


• 3: Debt's poetry, credit's fictions


• 4: Other worlds


• Coda


• Bibliography

About the author

Laura Kolb is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY. She received her PhD in 2014 from the University of Chicago. Her articles have appeared in SEL, Shakespeare Studies, The Sidney Journal, and The Forum for Modern Language Studies. She has written reviews for the TLS, Renaissance Quarterly, and The Shakespeare Newsletter.

Summary

Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare argues that practical texts and plays are "equipment for living": practical texts offer strategies for navigating England's culture of credit, and plays explore credit's dangers and possibilities. Dramatic texts show what it feels like to live in credit culture: to live inside a fiction.

Additional text

An important, thought-provoking analysis ... Kolb's prose is assured, expert, and full of lively charm ... I gladly recommend Fictions of Credit to anyone interested in how people collaborate in crafting the poetics we live by.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Kolb, Laura (Assistant Professor of English Kolb
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780198859697
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885969-7
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, DRAMA / Shakespeare, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean