LEADER 04379nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910815233003321 005 20211008223443.0 010 $a0-8122-0822-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208221 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060363 035 $a(OCoLC)859161183 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748637 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000949490 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11630174 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949490 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10996609 035 $a(PQKB)10398533 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24635 035 $a(DE-B1597)449690 035 $a(OCoLC)979881127 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208221 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442205 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748637 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442205 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060363 100 $a20121116d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOf bondage$b[electronic resource] $edebt, property, and personhood in early modern England /$fAmanda Bailey 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51181-0 311 0 $a0-8122-4516-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Bound Bodies and the Theater of Debt --$tChapter 1. Timon of Athens, Forms of Payback, and the Genre of Debt --$tChapter 2. Shylock and the Slaves: Owing and Owning in The Merchant of Venice --$tChapter 3. Michaelmas Term and the Problem of Satisfaction --$tChapter 4. Freedom, Bondage, and Redemption in The Custom of the Country --$tChapter 5. Prison Prose, the Pit, and the End of Tricks --$tEpilogue: The Debtor and the Slave --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThe late sixteenth-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on this historical juncture at which debt litigation was not merely an aspect of society but seemed to engulf it completely, Of Bondage examines a culture that understood money and the body of the borrower as comparable forms of property that impinged on one another at the moment of default. Amanda Bailey shows that the early modern theater, itself dependent on debt bonds, was well positioned to stage the complex ethical issues raised by a system of forfeiture that registered as a bodily event. While plays about debt like The Merchant of Venice and The Custom of the Country did not use the language of political philosophy, they were artistically and financially invested in exploring freedom as a function of possession. By revealing dramatic literature's heretofore unacknowledged contribution to the developing narrative of possessed persons, Amanda Bailey not only deepens our understanding of creditor-debtor relations in the period but also sheds new light on the conceptual conditions for the institutions of indentured servitude and African slavery. Of Bondage is vital not only for students and scholars of English literature but also for those interested in British and colonial legal history, the history of human rights, and the sociology of economics. 606 $aDebt in literature 606 $aEconomics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aDebt$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aProperty$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aDebt in literature. 615 0$aEconomics and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aDebt$xHistory. 615 0$aProperty$xHistory. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/3553 700 $aBailey$b Amanda$f1966-$01717547 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815233003321 996 $aOf bondage$94113886 997 $aUNINA