Globalizing fortune on the Early Modern stage
Explores the theme of fortune in early modern plays within the context of England's mercantile and colonial ventures, and provides original readings of several plays written for the London stage by dramatists including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Dekker.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Schlagworte: | English drama Fortune Economics Economics in literature Electronic books Englisch Drama Wirtschaft Expansion Glück |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource |
| Zusammenfassung: | Explores the theme of fortune in early modern plays within the context of England's mercantile and colonial ventures, and provides original readings of several plays written for the London stage by dramatists including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Dekker. Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Fortune's Early Modern Turn: From PaganGoddess to Proto-Capitalist Economics -- 1 The Rise and Fall of Fortune: Imperial World History and England's Commercial Turn in Doctor Faustus (c.1588/89) and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (c.1589/90) -- Imperial Ambition and the ``Form of Fortune'' in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus -- The Forging of English Empire in Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay -- 2 Fortunate Returns: Venturing, Performance, and the Hidden Hand of Providence in The Merchant of Venice (c.1596) and The Four Prentices of London (c.1594) -- Sleights of Hand: Simulations of Adventure and Risk in The Merchant of Venice -- Theatrical Contrivance and Miraculous Reunion in The Four Prentices of London -- 3 Navigating Fortune's Global Compass: Economies of Value and Affective Labor in Old Fortunatus (c.1600) and The Fair Maid of the West, Part 1 (c.1600) -- The Moral and Economic Regulation of Fortune in Old Fortunatus -- Gold Digger or Golden Girl?: Negotiating Value and Worth in Fair Maid -- 4 Embracing the Unknown: Fortune at Sea and Theatrical Risk in Hamlet (1600) and Pericles (c.1608) -- Signs Taken for Divinity: Hamlet's Voyage and the Sea of Dramatic Potentiality -- Riding out the Storm in Pericles: Patience, Pleasure, and Profit -- Afterword: The Darker Side of Fortune: Taking Stock ofFortune's Ethical and Racial Costs -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 214 - 226 |
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| ISBN: | 9780192638175 0192638173 9780198867920 0198867921 |