Performing Economic Thought: English Drama and Mercantile Writing, 1600-1642

ISBN-13: 9780748684656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 232 str.

Bradley D. Ryner

Opis

This study examines the structural similarities between English mercantile treatises and drama c1600-1642. Bradley D. Ryner analyses the representational conventions of 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. He shows that playwrights' manipulation of specific elements of theatrical representation - such as metaphor, props, dramatic character, stage space, audience interaction, and genre - exacerbated the tension between the aspects of the world taken into account by a particular representation and those aspects that it neglects.

Spis treści

Introduction: Performing Economic Thought; Chapter 1. Tables and Metaphors: Mountfort’s The Launching of the Mary; Chapter 2. Overflowing Props: Massinger’s The Emperor of the East; Chapter 3. Characterising Economics: Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling; Chapter 4. The Panoramic Stage: Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Cymbeline; Chapter 5. Stage-Managing Interpretation: Jonson’s The Staple of News; Chapter 6. Generic Self-Reflexivity: Brome’s A Jovial Crew; Chapter 7. The Performativity of Economic Models: Heywood’s If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part II and Massinger’s The Picture.