Money and magic in early modern drama / edited by David Hawkes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hawkes, David, 1964- editor.

Series:

Arden studies in early modern drama.

Arden studies in early modern drama

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Money in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : The Arden Shakespeare, [2023]

Summary:

"This volume considers three powerful ideological forces in early modern England: money, magic and the theatre. With the authorization of usury, financial value was developing into an independent, effective power. The mysterious, invisible nature of money's power struck many contemporaries as magical and contributed to the hysteria behind the great witch-hunts. At the same time, the public theatre emerged as a popular medium well-suited to representing the powers of magic. All the essays in this book examine the convergence of these three forces in a wide range of early modern drama. Part One considers the works of a broad array of figures ranging from Plautus through John Lyly to Christopher Marlowe - discussing plays such as Midas, The Alchemist and The Jew of Malta - while remaining tightly focussed on the nexus of money and magic. While Part Two concentrates on Shakespeare, whose diagnosis of the relations between finance, witchcraft and the stage is particularly acute in plays such as Timon of Athens, The Tempest and A Winter's Tale. The volume is especially timely in the current era of financial deregulation and derivatives, which often seem just as mysterious and occult in their operations as did the burgeoning financial system of 16th-century London"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part One: Money and Magic from Antiquity to the Renaissance / William Casey Caldwell (Northwestern University, USA). '"Ye pay all alike:" The Vice of Collecting Money in Mankind / David Hawkes (Arizona State University, USA) ; 'From Clever Slave to Crafty Knave: Labor and Value in Plautus and Ben Jonson' / Kaitlyn Culliton (Texas A&M University, USA) ; 'Cozening Queens and Phony Fairies: Fairy Counterfeits in Early Modern Drama' / Melissa Vipperman-Cohen (University of California, San Diego, USA) ; '"The Gold Bides Still:" Queer Capitalism and The Crisis of Value in Early Modern English Theater' / Daniel Vitkus (University of California, San Diego, USA) ; ' Demystifying Matter: Money, Magical Thinking, and the New Materialism'

Part Two: Money and Magic in Shakespeare / Hugh Grady (Arcadia University, USA). 'The Magic of Bounty in Timon of Athens : The Illusions of Money in an Inverted and Alienated World' / Kemal Toker (Brandeis University, USA) ; 'An Antony that Grew the More by Reaping': The Immeasurable Bounty of the Sharing Economy in Cleopatra's Egypt / Ja Young Jeon (City University of New York, USA) ; '"The stone is mine": Theater, Witchcraft, and Ventriloquism in The Winter's Tale' / Mark LaRubio (Arizona State University, USA) ; '"To th' syllable:" Money, Magic, and the Kabbalistic Tradition in The Tempest' / Katherine Romack (University of West Florida, USA) ; '"Shakespear's Magick could not copy'd be:" Davenant and Dryden's The Tempest' / Rebecca Steinberger (Misericordia University, USA) ; 'Woman, Warrior, or Witch? Fetishizing Margaret of Anjou on the Early Modern Stage'

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781350247062

1350247065

9781350247055

1350247057

OCLC:

1293234933