Tragicomic redemptions : global economics and the early modern English stage /
Forman, Valerie.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.
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.
English drama
Economics in literature.
Literature and globalization.
Literature and society
Drama
Theater
Theater
Theater