Shakespeares Economics

Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195128613
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Twenty-first Century Economics written by Frederick Turner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, this text demonstrates that terms of money and value permeate our minds and lives even in our most mundane moments.

Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195351738
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics written by Frederick Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I love you according to my bond," says Cordelia to her father in King Lear. As the play turns out, Cordelia proves to be an exemplary and loving daughter. A bond is both a legal or financial obligation, and a connection of mutual love. How are these things connected? In As You Like It, Shakespeare describes marriage as a "blessed bond of board and bed": the emotional, religious, and sexual sides of marriage cannot be detached from its status as a legal and economic contract. These examples are the pith of Frederick Turner's fascinating new book. Based on the proven maxim that "money makes the world go round," this engaging study draws from Shakespeare's texts to present a lexicon of common words, as well as a variety of familiar familial and cultural situations, in an economic context. Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, Turner demonstrates that the terms of money and value permeate our minds and lives even in our most mundane moments. His book offers a new, humane, evolutionary economics that fully expresses the moral, spiritual, and aesthetic relationships among persons, and between humans and nature. Playful and incisive, Turner's book offers a way to engage the wisdom of Shakespeare in everyday life in a trenchant prose that is accessible to lovers of Shakespeare at all levels.

Author : Jonathan Gil Harris
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202198
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sick Economies written by Jonathan Gil Harris and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From French Physiocrat theories of the blood-like circulation of wealth to Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of the market, the body has played a crucial role in Western perceptions of the economic. In Renaissance culture, however, the dominant bodily metaphors for national wealth and economy were derived from the relatively new language of infectious disease. Whereas traditional Galenic medicine had understood illness as a state of imbalance within the body, early modern writers increasingly reimagined disease as an invasive foreign agent. The rapid rise of global trade in the sixteenth century, and the resulting migrations of people, money, and commodities across national borders, contributed to this growing pathologization of the foreign; conversely, the new trade-inflected vocabularies of disease helped writers to represent the contours of national and global economies. Grounded in scrupulous analyses of cultural and economic history, Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England teases out the double helix of the pathological and the economic in two seemingly disparate spheres of early modern textual production: drama and mercantilist writing. Of particular interest to this study are the ways English playwrights, such as Shakespeare, Jonson, Heywood, Massinger, and Middleton, and mercantilists, such as Malynes, Milles, Misselden, and Mun, rooted their conceptions of national economy in the language of disease. Some of these diseases—syphilis, taint, canker, plague, hepatitis—have subsequently lost their economic connotations; others—most notably consumption—remain integral to the modern economic lexicon but have by and large shed their pathological senses. Breaking new ground by analyzing English mercantilism primarily as a discursive rather than an ideological or economic system, Sick Economies provides a compelling history of how, even in our own time, defenses of transnational economy have paradoxically pathologized the foreign. In the process, Jonathan Gil Harris argues that what we now regard as the discrete sphere of the economic cannot be disentangled from seemingly unrelated domains of Renaissance culture, especially medicine and the theater.

Author : David Hawkes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472576985
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Economic Theory written by David Hawkes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to economic literary theory as applied to Shakespeare, concentrating on the shifting relations between economics and literature in both the Renaissance and postmodern eras.

Author : Dominic Shellard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137583169
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Cultural Capital written by Dominic Shellard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare is a cultural phenomenon and arguably the most renowned playwright in history. In this edited collection, Shellard and Keenan bring together a collection of essays from international scholars that examine the direct and indirect economic and cultural impact of Shakespeare in the marketplace in the UK and beyond. From the marketing of Shakespeare’s plays on and off stage, to the wider impact of Shakespeare in fields such as education, and the commercial use of Shakespeare as a brand in the advertising and tourist industries, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the Shakespeare industry 400 years after his death. With a foreword from the celebrated cultural economist Bruno Frey and nine essays exploring the cultural and economic impact of Shakespeare in his own day and the present, Shakespeare’s Cultural Capital forms a unique offering to the study of cultural economics and Shakespeare.

Author : Vivian Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474216080
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language written by Vivian Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. The lexicon of political and economic language in Shakespeare does not consist merely of arcane terms whose shifting meanings require exposition, but includes an enormous number of relatively simple words which possess a structural significance in the configuration of meanings. Often operating by such means as puns, they open up a surprising number of possibilities. The dictionary reveals the conceptual nucleus of each term and explores the contexts in which it is embedded. The overlap between the political and economic dimensions of a word in Shakespeare's drama is particularly exciting as he is highly attuned to the interactions of these two spheres of human activity and their centrality in human affairs.

Author : Henry W. Farnam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Economics written by Henry W. Farnam and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter F. Grav
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135894132
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative written by Peter F. Grav and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working from the perspective of the new economic criticism, this study uses close reading and historical contextualization to examine the relationship between interpersonal relationships and economics in the plays of Shakespeare.

Author : David Hawkes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472576993
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Economic Theory written by David Hawkes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 20 years, the concept of 'economic' activity has come to seem inseparable from psychological, semiotic and ideological experiences. In fact, the notion of the 'economy' as a discrete area of life seems increasingly implausible. This returns us to the situation of Shakespeare's England, where the financial had yet to be differentiated from other forms of representation. This book shows how concepts and concerns that were until recently considered purely economic affected the entire range of sixteenth and seventeenth century life. Using the work of such critics as Jean-Christophe Agnew, Douglas Bruster, Hugh Grady and many others, Shakespeare and Economic Theory traces economic literary criticism to its cultural and historical roots, and discusses its main practitioners. Providing new readings of Timon of Athens, King Lear, The Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and The Tempest, David Hawkes shows how it can reveal previously unappreciated qualities of Shakespeare's work.

Author : David Hawkes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472577000
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Economic Theory written by David Hawkes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 20 years, the concept of 'economic' activity has come to seem inseparable from psychological, semiotic and ideological experiences. In fact, the notion of the 'economy' as a discrete area of life seems increasingly implausible. This returns us to the situation of Shakespeare's England, where the financial had yet to be differentiated from other forms of representation. This book shows how concepts and concerns that were until recently considered purely economic affected the entire range of sixteenth and seventeenth century life. Using the work of such critics as Jean-Christophe Agnew, Douglas Bruster, Hugh Grady and many others, Shakespeare and Economic Theory traces economic literary criticism to its cultural and historical roots, and discusses its main practitioners. Providing new readings of Timon of Athens, King Lear, The Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and The Tempest, David Hawkes shows how it can reveal previously unappreciated qualities of Shakespeare's work.