{"product_id":"money-and-magic-in-early-modern-drama-hardcover","title":"Money and Magic in Early Modern Drama - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Hawkes\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLisa Hopkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDouglas Bruster\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoney, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern England. Money was acquiring an independent, efficacious agency, as the growth of usury allowed financial signs to reproduce without human intervention. Magic was coming to seem Satanic, as the manipulation of magical signs to performative purposes was criminalized in the great 'witch craze.' And the commercial, public theatre was emerging - to great controversy - as the perfect medium to display, analyse and evaluate the newly autonomous power of representation in its financial, magical and aesthetic forms.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoney and Magic in Early Modern Drama\u003c\/i\u003e is especially timely in the current era of financial deregulation and derivatives, which are just as mysterious and occult in their operations as the germinal finance of 16th-century London. Chapters examine the convergence of money and magic in a wide range of early modern drama, from the anonymous \u003ci\u003eMankind\u003c\/i\u003e through Christopher Marlowe to Ben Jonson, concentrating on such plays as \u003ci\u003eThe Alchemist, The New Inn\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Staple of News.\u003c\/i\u003e Several focus on Shakespeare, whose analysis of the relations between finance, witchcraft and theatricality is particularly acute in \u003ci\u003eTimon of Athens, The Comedy of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Hawkes\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42097983225991,"sku":"9781350247048","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3bc9308e86481a630c249931fa8ac40b.webp?v=1732358303","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/money-and-magic-in-early-modern-drama-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}