{"product_id":"urban-citizenship-in-early-modern-drama","title":"Urban Citizenship in Early Modern Drama","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCitizenship in Shakespeare’s England was not attached to nationality but rather to one’s city and employment.\u003c\/b\u003e In this study of urban citizenship, William Casey Caldwell explores the range of economic relationships which existed through a range of dramatic texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevealing how citizenship was defined along urban lines and controlled by early forms of corporations, Caldwell argues that playwrights at the time used this context to imagine new opportunities for non-citizens. By returning us to its commercial and urban bases, \u003ci\u003eUrban Citizenship in Early Modern Drama \u003c\/i\u003eexposes how playwrights such as Shakespeare, Francis Beaumont, and William Haughton used extant and emergent financial instruments and relationships to rethink the economic foundations of citizenship in London. From Shylock’s bid to make a debt bond to procreate with a citizen in \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice \u003c\/i\u003eto the monetized form of toleration directed towards a Portuguese denizen’s daughters in \u003ci\u003eEnglishmen for My Money\u003c\/i\u003e, this book explores how plays provided their audience - many of whom would not have been citizens either - with critical and performative forms of citizenship defined by the intersection of job and city.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57322832789848,"sku":"9781350467026","price":92.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350467026.jpg?v=1779188473","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/urban-citizenship-in-early-modern-drama","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}