Shakespeare and the economic imperative
Subtitle: "what's aught but as 'tis valued?"
By: Peter F. Grav.
Series: Studies in major literary authors; Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780415963169; 9780203927915
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Economics.; Money in literature.; Value in literature.; Capitalism in literature.; Ethics in literature.; Money -- Social aspects.; Interpersonal relations -- Economic aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: The merchants of Ephesus and how money never really mattered; title: Shakespeare's England : The merry wives of Windsor's bourgeois cash values; title: "My purse, my person" : conflating the economic and the personal in The merchant of Venice; title: The exchange economy of Measure for measure : "you will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts"; title: Reconciling the two Timons : Shakespeare's philanthropist and Middleton's prodigal.