Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative - Whats Aught But As Tis Valued?

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Peter F. Grav currently lectures at the School of Graduate Studies and the Department of English at the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate degrees in Education and English Literature at the University of Ottawa and his Master’s and PhD in English Literature at the University of Toronto. Klappentext Uses close reading and historical contextualization to examine the relationship between interpersonal relationships and economics in the plays of Shakespeare. Zusammenfassung Working from the perspective of the new economic criticism, this study uses close reading and historical contextualization to examine the relationship between interpersonal relationships and economics in the plays of Shakespeare. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: The wind that bloweth all the world besides – desire for gold Chapter One: The Merchants of Ephesus and How Money Never Really Mattered Chapter Two: Shakespeare’s England: The Merry Wives of Windsor’s Bourgeois Cash Values Chapter Three: My purse, my person: Conflating the Economic and the Personal in The Merchant of Venice Chapter Four: The Exchange Economy of Measure for Measure: You will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts: Chapter Five: Reconciling the Two Timons: Shakespeare’s Philanthropist and Middleton’s Prodigal Conclusion: What’s aught but as ‘tis valued? Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Peter F. Grav, Peter F. (University of Toronto Grav, Grav Peter, GRAV PETER F, Grav Peter F.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2008
• EAN: 9780415963169
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96316-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors; Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean