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80 - Trade and Commerce: Mercantilism

from Part IX - England, 1560–1650

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Michael Tratner
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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biologycapitalismcreditDonne, JohneconomicsfeudalismhumoralismmercantilismThe Merchant of VeniceMisselden, EdwardMuldrew, CraigMun, ThomasOthelloRomeo and Julietsonnet 4sonnet 6sonnet 20sonnet 127sonnet 134sonnet 137sonnet 144sonnet 147Spenser, Edmundusury
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 625 - 631
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Aaron, Mellissa D. Global Economics: A History of the Theater Business, the Chamberlain’s/King’s Men, and Their Plays, 1599–1642. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2005.Google Scholar
Bruster, Douglas. Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Hawkes, David. Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580–1680. New York: Palgrave, 2001.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leinwand, Theodore. Finance and Society in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Warley, Christopher. Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Woodbridge, Linda, ed. Money and the Age of Shakespeare. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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