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Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare argues that practical texts and plays are ""equipment for living"": practical texts offer strategies for navigating England's culture of credit, and plays explore credit's dangers and possibilities. Dramatic texts show what i...

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Main Author: Kolb, Laura (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > Themes, motives.
Debt in literature.
England > Economic conditions > 16th century.
England > Economic conditions > 17th century.
Théâtre anglais > 16e siècle > Thèmes, motifs.
Dettes dans la littérature.
Angleterre > Conditions économiques > 16e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Renaissance.
Debt in literature
Economic history
England
1500-1699
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare argues that practical texts and plays are ""equipment for living"": practical texts offer strategies for navigating England's culture of credit, and plays explore credit's dangers and possibilities. Dramatic texts show what it feels like to live in credit culture: to live inside a fiction.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 223 pages) : color illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780192603500
0192603507
9780192603517
0192603515
9780191892066
0191892068