Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Monetary Compensation for Injuries to the Body, A.D. 602–1697....Pages 19-37
Commerce, Community, and Nostalgia in The Comedy of Errors ....Pages 39-51
Scene Stealers: Autolycus, The Winter’s Tale and Economic Criticism....Pages 53-65
On a Certain Tendency in Economic Criticism of Shakespeare....Pages 67-77
Exchange Value and Empiricism in the Poetry of George Herbert....Pages 79-95
Work and the Gift: Notes Toward an Investigation....Pages 97-112
Material Dispossessions and Counterfeit Investments: The Economies of Twelfth Night ....Pages 113-127
Gift Exchange and Social Hierarchy in Thomas Deloney’s Jack of Newbury ....Pages 129-141
Taking Excess, Exceeding Account: Aristotle Meets The Merchant of Venice ....Pages 143-158
The Lead Casket: Capital, Mercantilism, and The Merchant of Venice....Pages 159-176
The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel: Launcelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice ....Pages 177-187
Freeing Daughters on Open Markets: The Incest Clause in The Merchant of Venice....Pages 189-200
Usury and Counterfeiting in Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London and The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London, and in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure ....Pages 201-217
Middleton and Debt in Timon of Athens ....Pages 219-235
Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure ....Pages 237-250
Fetish and Poem: Ben Jonson’s Dilemma....Pages 251-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-281