Explores the theme of fortune in early modern plays within the context of England's mercantile and colonial ventures, and provides original readings of several plays written for the London stage by dramatists including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Dekker.
Explores the theme of fortune in early modern plays within the context of England's mercantile and colonial ventures, and provides original readings of several plays written for the London stage by dramatists including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Dekker.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jane Hwang Degenhardt is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches classes on Shakespeare and his contemporaries as well as on racial trauma and social justice. Her scholarship focuses on early modern drama, with particular interests in the histories of race and religion, the effects of globalizing processes, and the relationship between literature and social justice. She is the author of Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage (2010), and co-editor, with Elizabeth Williamson, of Religion and Drama in Early Modern England. She is co-editor of the journal ELR.
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* Preface: My Early Fortunes * Introduction: Fortune's Early Modern Turn: From Pagan Goddess to Proto-Capitalist Economics * 1: The Rise and Fall of Fortune: Imperial World History and England's Commercial Turn in Doctor Faustus (c. 1588/89) and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (c. 1589/90) * 2: Fortunate Returns: Venturing, Performance, and the Hidden Hand of Providence in The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596) and The Four Prentices of London (c.1594) * 3: Navigating Fortune's Global Compass: Economies of Value and Affective Labor in Old Fortunatus (c. 1600) and The Fair Maid of the West, Part 1 (c. 1600) * 4: Embracing the Unknown: Fortune at Sea and Theatrical Risk in Hamlet (1600) and Pericles (c. 1608) * Afterword: The Darker Side of Fortune: Taking Stock of Fortune's Ethical and Racial Costs
* Preface: My Early Fortunes * Introduction: Fortune's Early Modern Turn: From Pagan Goddess to Proto-Capitalist Economics * 1: The Rise and Fall of Fortune: Imperial World History and England's Commercial Turn in Doctor Faustus (c. 1588/89) and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (c. 1589/90) * 2: Fortunate Returns: Venturing, Performance, and the Hidden Hand of Providence in The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596) and The Four Prentices of London (c.1594) * 3: Navigating Fortune's Global Compass: Economies of Value and Affective Labor in Old Fortunatus (c. 1600) and The Fair Maid of the West, Part 1 (c. 1600) * 4: Embracing the Unknown: Fortune at Sea and Theatrical Risk in Hamlet (1600) and Pericles (c. 1608) * Afterword: The Darker Side of Fortune: Taking Stock of Fortune's Ethical and Racial Costs
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