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Tragicomic redemptions : global economics and the early modern English stage / Valerie Forman.

  • Accession number

    83446559

  • Class

    81/FOR

  • ISBN

    9780812240962 (hbk.), 0812240960 (hbk.)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    279 p. ; 23 cm.

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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Formatted contents note: 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. Uk-SuSCL. Summary, etc: Forman argues that the development of 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 in early modern England.