Peter F Grav

Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative

"What's aught but as 'tis valued?"

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Produktbeschreibung

Working from the perspective of the new economic criticism, this study uses close reading and historical contextualization to examine the relationship between interpersonal relationships and economics in the plays of Shakespeare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780415542173
• ISBN-10: 0415542170
• Artikelnr.: 57047126

Autorenporträt

Dr. Peter F. Grav currently lectures at the School of Graduate Studies and the Department of English at the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate degrees in Education and English Literature at the University of Ottawa and his Master's and PhD in English Literature at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: The wind that bloweth all the world besides -
desire for gold Chapter One: The Merchants of Ephesus and How Money Never
Really Mattered Chapter Two: Shakespeare's England: The Merry Wives of
Windsor's Bourgeois Cash Values Chapter Three: My purse, my person:
Conflating the Economic and the Personal in The Merchant of Venice Chapter
Four: The Exchange Economy of Measure for Measure: You will needs buy and
sell men and women like beasts: Chapter Five: Reconciling the Two Timons:
Shakespeare's Philanthropist and Middleton's Prodigal Conclusion: What's
aught but as 'tis valued? Notes Index