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Chaste value : economic crisis, female chastity and the production of social difference on Shakespeare's stage / / Katherine Gillen [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Gillen Katherine Visualizza persona
Titolo: Chaste value : economic crisis, female chastity and the production of social difference on Shakespeare's stage / / Katherine Gillen [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 822.309353
Soggetto topico: English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism
Chastity in literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction: Chastity and the Question of Value -- 1. Chastity and the Ethics of Commercial Theatre in Measure for Measure, Pericles and The Revenger’s Tragedy -- 2. Commercial Chastity and Aristocratic Value in Troilus and Cressida, The White Devil and The Changeling -- 3. Chaste Selfhood: Ben Jonson’s Critique of Urban Chastity Tropes -- 4. Chastity and Blackness: Racial Value and Commodity Potential in The Fair Maid of the West, Part I and Othello -- 5. Mediterranean Markets, Commoditised Masculinity and the Whitening of Christian Chastity in The Merchant of Venice and The Renegado -- 6. Chaste Treasure and National Identity in The Rape of Lucrece and Cymbeline -- Coda: Approaching Capitalist Modernity -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Chaste Value reassesses chastity's significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage's production of early capitalist subjectivity and social difference.
Titolo autorizzato: Chaste value  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4744-1773-6
1-4744-3453-3
1-4744-1772-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828172803321
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Serie: Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy.