Chaste value : economic crisis, female chastity and the production of social difference on Shakespeare's stage / / Katherine Gillen [[electronic resource]]
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Gillen Katherine
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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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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-4744-1773-6 |
| 1-4744-3453-3 | |
| 1-4744-1772-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828172803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy.