Money and the age of Shakespeare : essays in new economic criticism

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Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Monetary Compensation for Injuries to the Body, A.D. 602-1697; 2 Commerce, Community, and Nostalgia in The Comedy of Errors; 3 Scene Stealers: Autolycus, The Winter's Tale and Economic Criticism; 4 On a Certain Tendency in Economic Criticism of Shakespeare; 5 Exchange Value and Empiricism in the Poetry of George Herbert; 6 Work and the Gift: Notes toward an Investigation; 7 Material Dispossessions and Counterfeit Investments: The Economies of Twelfth Night. 8 Gift Exchange and Social Hierarchy in Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury9 Taking Excess, Exceeding Account: Aristotle Meets The Merchant of Venice; 10 The Lead Casket: Capital, Mercantilism, and The Merchant of Venice; 11 The Fiend gives Friendly Counsel: Launcelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice; 12 Freeing Daughters on Open Markets: The Incest Clause in The Merchant of Venice; 13 Usury and Counterfeiting in Wilson's The Three Ladies of London and The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London, and in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. 14 Middleton and Debt in Timon of Athens15 Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure; 16 Fetish and Poem: Ben Jonson's Dilemma; Index