Desires of credit in early modern theory and drama : commerce, poesy, and the profitable imagination / Brian Sheerin, St. Edward's University

Author: Sheerin, Brian
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Physical Description: 147 pages ; 24 cm.

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Studies in performance and early modern drama

Contents

The profitable imagination: poesy, coinage, and the hermeneutic circles of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus -- The Jewish economies of Renaissance reading: putting Shylock to good use in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- Good credit and the maintenance of desire in Heywood's Apology for actors and If you know not me, you know nobody, part II -- Imaginative alchemy and the face of the sovereign: locating value in Dekker's Old Fortunatus -- Banking and the allure of belief: bad credit in Jonson's Volpone.

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9781472478108 hardback alkaline paper
147247810X hardback alkaline paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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