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Author Forman, Valerie

Title Tragicomic redemptions : global economics and the early modern English stage / Valerie Forman
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Contents 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
Summary Valerie Forman contends that three seemingly unrelated domains--new economic theories and practices; the discourses of Christian redemption; and the rise of tragicomedy as the stage's most popular genre--were together crucial to the formulation of a new and paradoxical way of thinking about loss and profit in relationship to one another
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261) and index
Notes In English
Subject 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
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Drama -- Economic aspects
Economics in literature
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Literature and globalization
Literature and society
Theater
Theater -- Economic aspects
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812201925
0812201922