{"product_id":"tragicomic-redemptions-global-economics-and-the-early-modern-english-stage-hardback-9780812240962","title":"Tragicomic Redemptions; Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage (Hardback) 9780812240962","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTragicomic Redemptions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGlobal Economics and the Early Modern English Stage\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eValerie Forman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812240962\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 July 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"With a firm grounding in economic history, Valerie Forman traces a fascinating connection between evolving views about international trade, the religious discourse of Christian redemption . . . and the evolution of the period's most popular dramatic genre: tragicomedy.\" (\u003ci\u003eParergon\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Valerie Forman's study of global economics and the early modern stage proves a richly complex undertaking as she meshes economic practice, Christian narratives of loss and redemption, and tragicomedy. Taking early modern economic studies as a starting point, Forman demonstrates how the critical shortage of coin in the early part of the seventeenth century created immediate loss which would be redeemed when ships returned to port and profit was realized through resale of acquired goods. Forman links this narrative to the fall of human kind, which through Christ's intervention is redeemed.\" (\u003ci\u003eSixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early modern period, England radically expanded its participation in an economy that itself was becoming increasingly global. Yet less than twenty years after the highly profitable English East India Company made its first voyage, England was suffering from an economic depression, blamed largely on the shortage of coin necessary to exploit those very same profitable routes. How could there be profit in the face of so much loss, and loss in the face of so much profit?\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTragicomic Redemptions\u003c\/i\u003e, Valerie Forman contends that three seemingly unrelated domains-the development of new economic theories and practices, especially those related to global trade; the discourses of Christian redemption; and the rise of tragicomedy as the stage's most popular genre-were together crucial to the formulation of a new and paradoxical way of thinking about loss and profit in relationship to one another.\u003cbr\u003e Forman reads plays-including Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eTwelfth Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePericles\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Fletcher's \u003ci\u003eThe Island Princess\u003c\/i\u003e, Massinger's \u003ci\u003eThe Renegado\u003c\/i\u003e, and Webster's \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Law-Case\u003c\/i\u003e-alongside a range of historical materials that provide a fuller picture of England's participation in a global economy: the writings of the country's earliest economic theorists, narrative accounts of merchants and captives in the Spice Islands and the Ottoman Empire, and documents that detail the development of the English East India Company, the Levant Company, and even the very idea of the joint-stock company. Unique in its dual focus on literary form and economic practices, \u003ci\u003eTragicomic Redemptions\u003c\/i\u003e both shows how concepts fundamental to capitalism's existence, such as \"free trade,\" and \"investment,\" develop within a global context and reveals the exceptional place of dramatic form as a participant in the newly emerging, public discourse of economic theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555710202136,"sku":"9780812240962","price":40.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/tragicomic-redemptions-global-economics-and-the-early-modern-english-stage-hardback-9780812240962","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}