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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      04 February 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511483677
      9780521640312
      9780521034661
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483677
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 214 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.328kg, 216 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (31)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (31)
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    This interesting study examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures in early modern England, as they are revealed in plays, historical narratives and biographical accounts of the period. These texts yield fascinating insights into the various, often unpredictable, ways in which people coped with the exigencies of credit, debt, mortgaging and capital ventures. Plays discussed include Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Timon of Athens, Jonson's The Alchemist and Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts. They are paired with writings by and about the finances of the corrupt Earl of Suffolk, the privateer Walter Raleigh, the royal agent Thomas Gresham, theatre entrepreneur James Burbage, and the Lord Treasurer Lionel Cranfield. Leinwand's new readings of these texts reveal a blend of affect and cognition concerning finance that includes nostalgia, anger, contempt, embarrassment, tenacity, bravado and humility.

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    "...Leinwand provides a fascinating glimpse into both early modern economic practices and the variety of the age's affective responses to them." Choice

    "The renewed interest...has enriched and complicated our understanding of the early modern period and its literature...Leinwand's accounts...are impressive in their detail..." Renaissance Quarterly

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