Chaste Value : : Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare's Stage / / Katherine Gillen.
Examines the way that theatrical representations of chastity inform broader concerns about the commoditisation of people in early capitalismChaste Value reassesses chastity’s significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage’s production of early capitalist...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy : ECSSP
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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