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Globalizing fortune on the early modern stage /

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"Offering in-depth discussions of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Heywood, Dekker, and others, this study considers how England's economic expansion through global commerce and nascent colonial exploration produced new understandings of the role of fortune in the world, both as a philosophy...

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Main Author: Degenhardt, Jane Hwang (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Fortune in literature.
Economics in literature.
Théâtre anglais > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Chance dans la littérature.
Économie politique dans la littérature.
Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS.
Renaissance.
HISTORY.
Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Theater.
PERFORMING ARTS.
Economics
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
Fortune
1500-1600
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.