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Fictions of credit in the age of Shakespeare /

'Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare' argues that practical texts and plays are 'equipment for living': practical texts offer strategies for navigating England's culture of credit, and plays explore credit's dangers and possibilities. Dramatic texts show what i...

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Main Authors: Kolb, Laura
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford :
Publication Dates: 2021.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Economics in literature.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > Themes, motives.
Debt in literature.
Economic history.
England > Economic conditions > 16th century.
England > Economic conditions > 17th century.
England.
Summary: 'Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare' argues that practical texts and plays are 'equipment for living': practical texts offer strategies for navigating England's culture of credit, and plays explore credit's dangers and possibilities. Dramatic texts show what it feels like to live in credit culture: to live inside a fiction.
Carrier Form: vi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-215) and index.
ISBN: 9780198859697
0198859694
Index Number: PR658
CLC: I561.073-05
Call Number: I561.073-05/K812
Contents: Reckoning reputation -- Friendly credit and its dangers -- Debt's poetry, credit's fictions -- Other worlds.

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