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Author: Frederick Turner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0195128613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, this text demonstrates that terms of money and value permeate our minds and lives even in our most mundane moments.
Author: Frederick Turner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-09-23
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0195351738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I love you according to my bond," says Cordelia to her father in King Lear. As the play turns out, Cordelia proves to be an exemplary and loving daughter. A bond is both a legal or financial obligation, and a connection of mutual love. How are these things connected? In As You Like It, Shakespeare describes marriage as a "blessed bond of board and bed": the emotional, religious, and sexual sides of marriage cannot be detached from its status as a legal and economic contract. These examples are the pith of Frederick Turner's fascinating new book. Based on the proven maxim that "money makes the world go round," this engaging study draws from Shakespeare's texts to present a lexicon of common words, as well as a variety of familiar familial and cultural situations, in an economic context. Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, Turner demonstrates that the terms of money and value permeate our minds and lives even in our most mundane moments. His book offers a new, humane, evolutionary economics that fully expresses the moral, spiritual, and aesthetic relationships among persons, and between humans and nature. Playful and incisive, Turner's book offers a way to engage the wisdom of Shakespeare in everyday life in a trenchant prose that is accessible to lovers of Shakespeare at all levels.
Author: Dominic Shellard
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-18
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1137583169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare is a cultural phenomenon and arguably the most renowned playwright in history. In this edited collection, Shellard and Keenan bring together a collection of essays from international scholars that examine the direct and indirect economic and cultural impact of Shakespeare in the marketplace in the UK and beyond. From the marketing of Shakespeare’s plays on and off stage, to the wider impact of Shakespeare in fields such as education, and the commercial use of Shakespeare as a brand in the advertising and tourist industries, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the Shakespeare industry 400 years after his death. With a foreword from the celebrated cultural economist Bruno Frey and nine essays exploring the cultural and economic impact of Shakespeare in his own day and the present, Shakespeare’s Cultural Capital forms a unique offering to the study of cultural economics and Shakespeare.
Author: John Pitcher
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780838639634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare.
Author: David Hawkes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-09-24
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1472576985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to economic literary theory as applied to Shakespeare, concentrating on the shifting relations between economics and literature in both the Renaissance and postmodern eras.
Author: Kate McLuskie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2015-11-01
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1526103001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with Shakespeare’s role in contemporary culture. It looks in detail at the way that Shakespeare’s plays inform modern ideas of cultural value and the work required to make Shakespeare part of modern culture. It is unique in using social policy, anthropology and economics, as well as close readings of the playwright, to show how a text from the past becomes part of contemporary culture and how Shakespeare’s writing informs modern ideas of cultural value. It goes beyond the twentieth-century cultural studies debates that argued the case for and against Shakespeare’s status, to show how he can exist both as a free artistic resource and as a branded product in the cultural marketplace. It will appeal not only to scholars studying Shakespeare, but also to educators and any reader interested in contemporary cultural policy.
Author: Kristin M.S. Bezio
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-04-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1839106425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership examines problems, challenges, and crises in our contemporary world through the lens of William Shakespeare’s plays, one of the best-known, most admired, and often controversial authors of the last half-millennium.
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Publisher: Best Books Incorporated
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1132
ISBN-13:
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Author: David Hawkes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-09-24
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1472576993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last 20 years, the concept of 'economic' activity has come to seem inseparable from psychological, semiotic and ideological experiences. In fact, the notion of the 'economy' as a discrete area of life seems increasingly implausible. This returns us to the situation of Shakespeare's England, where the financial had yet to be differentiated from other forms of representation. This book shows how concepts and concerns that were until recently considered purely economic affected the entire range of sixteenth and seventeenth century life. Using the work of such critics as Jean-Christophe Agnew, Douglas Bruster, Hugh Grady and many others, Shakespeare and Economic Theory traces economic literary criticism to its cultural and historical roots, and discusses its main practitioners. Providing new readings of Timon of Athens, King Lear, The Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and The Tempest, David Hawkes shows how it can reveal previously unappreciated qualities of Shakespeare's work.
Author: William E. Halal
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780312161996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the twenty-first century looms ahead, it is becoming increasingly clear that economic life will be different on the other side of the millennium. In "Twenty-First Century Economics, " the editors have assembled a group of leading economists and scholars to provide authoritative analyses of the powerful forces now shaping economic systems and to estimate where these trends are headed. The essays compare the Information Revolution of today to the Industrial Revolution of yesterday and show how, for the first time in history, economic affairs are being organized around the pursuit of knowledge.
