Tragicomic redemptions
Subtitle: global economics and the early modern English stage
By: Valerie Forman.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780812240962
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; Economics in literature; Literature and globalization; Literature and society -- England; Drama -- Economic aspects -- England; Theater -- Economic aspects -- England; Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century; Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stasis and insularity in The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night; title: The voyage out: Pericles; title: Poverty, surplus value, and theatrical investment in The Winter's Tale; title: Captivity and "free" trade: Fletcher's The Island Princess and English commerce in the East Indies in the early 1600s; title: Balance, circulation, and equity in the "prosperous voyage" of The Renegado; title: Webster's The Devil's Law-Case, the limits of tragicomic redemption, and tragicomedy's afterlife.