Shakespeare and the economic imperative : "what's aught but as 'tis valued?"
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Shakespeare and the economic imperative : "what's aught but as 'tis valued?"
（Studies in major literary authors）
Routledge, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Despite the volume of work Shakespeare produced, surprisingly few of his plays directly concern money and the economic mindset. Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative examines the five plays that do address monetary issues (The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure and Timon of Athens), plays in which Shakespeare's view of how economic determinants shape interpersonal relationships progressively darkens. In short, what thematically starts out in farce ends in nihilistic tragedy. Working within the critical stream of new economic criticism, this book uses formal analysis to interrogate how words are used - how words and metaphoric patterns from the quantifiable dealings of commerce transform into signifiers of qualitative values and how the endemic employment of discursive tropes based on mercantile principles debases human relationships. This examination is complemented by historical socio-economic contextualization, as it seems evident that the societies depicted in these plays reflect the changing world in which Shakespeare lived and wrote.
目次
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
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