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  1. Shakespeare and the economic imperative
    "what's aught but as 'tis valued?"
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

    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 more

    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0203927915; 1281259705; 0415963168; 9781135894139; 9781281259707; 9780203927915; 9780415963169
    Series: Studies in major literary authors
    Subjects: Capitalism in literature; Ethics in literature; Money; Interpersonal relations; Money in literature; Value in literature
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (vii, 207 p), 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 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 ProdigalConclusion: "What's aught but as 'tis valued?"; Notes; Bibliography; Index