num_pages: 294
description: In this collection literary scholars, theorists and historians deploy new economic techniques to illuminate English Renaissance literature in fresh ways. Contributors variously explore poetry's precarious perch between gift and commodity; the longing for family in The Comedy of Errors as symbolically expressing the alienating pressures of mercantilism; Measure for Measure 's representation of singlewomen and the feminization of poverty; the collision between two views of money in a possible collaboration between Shakespeare and Middleton; the cultural spread of an accounting mentality and quantitative thinking; and money as it crosses the frontier between price and pricelessness, and from early bodily-injury insurance schemes to The Merchant of Venice .
language: English
title: Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism
titlecomplete: Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan