Economies of Early Modern Drama - Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton

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.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Household Management and Commerce in Early Modern England


• 2: Oeconomy in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Macbeth


• 3: Mercantile Agency and Service in Othello and The Alchemist


• 4: Asynchronous Exchanges in Volpone and Timon of Athens


• Conclusion

About the author

Anne Enderwitz is Professor of English Literature at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She studied English and philosophy in Berlin and wrote her dissertation on modernist melancholia at London (UCL). As a postdoctoral researcher, she was affiliated with the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School in Berlin and taught English literature at the Peter Szondi Institute for Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU). After submitting her post-doctoral dissertation (Habilitation) on early modern drama and economy at the FU, she taught in Munich, Tübingen, and Giessen. Professor Enderwitz specializes in early modern literature while also pursuing her research interests in modernism and climate fiction.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Enderwitz, Prof Anne (Professor of English Literat Enderwitz
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2023
• EAN: 9780192866813
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286681-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Economic history, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean