A01=Bradley Ryner
Author_Bradley Ryner
Ben Jonson
Category1=Non-Fiction
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Category=DSG
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COP=United Kingdom
Discount=15
early modern drama
English Renaissance drama
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Format_Hardback
HMM=234
IMPN=Edinburgh University Press
ISBN13=9780748684656
Language_English
Literary Studies
mercantilism
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20131217
Philip Massinger
POP=Edinburgh
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
PUB=Edinburgh University Press
SN=Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
Subject=Literature: History & Criticism
Thomas Heywood
Thomas Middleton
WG=504
William Shakespeare
WMM=156
Product details
- ISBN 9780748684656
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 504g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2013
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: Edinburgh, GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Provides an original account of the relationship between economic thought and early modern drama
Performing Economic Thought examines representations of economic exchange in English plays and mercantile treatises written between the chartering of the English East India Company in 1600 and the closing of the public playhouses at the outset of the English Civil War in 1642. These were crucial decades during which economic thinkers re-examined how they conceptualised and depicted commerce as a system.
Adapting approaches pioneered by scholars working under the expansive rubric of Science Studies, Performing Economic Thought compares the formal features of treatises and plays, giving particular attention to those features unique to the theatrical experience (for example, the presence of props and actors' bodies and the position of the audience relative to the staged action) that allowed economic systems to be represented and conceptualised differently in the playhouse than in the printed treatise. The book argues that the representational techniques available to playwrights facilitated a more insightful exploration of economic systems than those available to economic writers.
Bradley D. Ryner is an Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University. His work has appeared in English Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, and in various edited collections.
