This innovative study examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures in early modern England, as they are revealed in plays, historical narratives and biographical accounts of the period. These texts yield fascinating insights into the various, often unpredictable, ways in which people coped with the exigencies of credit, debt, mortgaging and capital ventures. Leinwand discusses plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Heywood and Massinger, pairing them with writings about the finances of royalty and aristocrats, privateers, theatrical entrepreneurs and debtors.
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"...Leinwand provides a fascinating glimpse into both early modern economic practices and the variety of the age's affective responses to them." Choice
"The renewed interest...has enriched and complicated our understanding of the early modern period and its literature...Leinwand's accounts...are impressive in their detail..." Renaissance Quarterly
"The renewed interest...has enriched and complicated our understanding of the early modern period and its literature...Leinwand's accounts...are impressive in their detail..." Renaissance Quarterly
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This innovative study examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures in early modern England, as they are revealed in plays, historical narratives and biographical accounts of the period. These texts yield fascinating insights into the various, often unpredictable, ways in which people coped with the exigencies of credit, debt, mortgaging and capital ventures. Leinwand discusses plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Heywood and Massinger, pairing them with writings about the finances of royalty and aristocrats, privateers, theatrical entrepreneurs and debtors.
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There was among men and women in the latter part of the sixteenth century a dawning, sometimes consuming, awareness that both rural and urban life, agriculture, industry and trade depended on credit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
privateering voyages, credit relations, credit crunch Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Giles, Lord Lovell, Sir Petronel, Queen Elizabeth, The Alchemist, East India Company, King James, Lady Alworth, Lord Mayor, Lord Treasurer, Lord William, Richard Burbage, Robert Cecil, Robert Myles, Thomas Gresham, Timon of Athens, Lord Chamberlain, Madre de Dios, Margaret Overreach, Michaelmas Term, Royal Agent, Sir Arthur Ingram, Sir Lionel, Tom Alworth, Court of Chancery New!
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There was among men and women in the latter part of the sixteenth century a dawning, sometimes consuming, awareness that both rural and urban life, agriculture, industry and trade depended on credit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
privateering voyages, credit relations, credit crunch Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Giles, Lord Lovell, Sir Petronel, Queen Elizabeth, The Alchemist, East India Company, King James, Lady Alworth, Lord Mayor, Lord Treasurer, Lord William, Richard Burbage, Robert Cecil, Robert Myles, Thomas Gresham, Timon of Athens, Lord Chamberlain, Madre de Dios, Margaret Overreach, Michaelmas Term, Royal Agent, Sir Arthur Ingram, Sir Lionel, Tom Alworth, Court of Chancery New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Merchant of Venice (Saddleback Classics) by Emily Hutchinson on 14 pages
- The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare on 14 pages
- A New Way to Pay Old Debts (New Mermaids) by Philip Massinger on 8 pages
- Michaelmas Term (Revels Plays) by Thomas Middleton on 5 pages
- The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England by Richard Grassby on 4 pages
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- Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England by Jonathan Gil Harris in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Poor Women in Shakespeare by Fiona McNeill in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Idioms of Self Interest: Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Jill Phillips Ingram in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Plotting Early Modern London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama) by Dieter Mehl on page 81, and Back Matter
- Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean by Daniel Vitkus on page 189, and Back Matter
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