Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama: Commerce, Poesy, and the Profitable Imagination

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Brian Sheerin

Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama

Commerce, Poesy, and the Profitable Imagination

Brian Sheerin

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Routledge
17 January 2019

The Arts: General & Reference; Theatre Studies; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; History; Economic history

Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama traces the near-simultaneous rise of economic theory, literary criticism, and public theater in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, and posits that connecting all three is a fascination with creating something out of nothing simply by acting as if it were there. Author Brian Sheerin contends that the motivating force behind both literary and economic inquiry at this time was the same basic quandary about the human imagination--specifically, how investments of belief can produce tangible consequences. Just as speculators were realizing the potency of collective imagination on economic circulation, readers and dramatists were becoming newly introspective about whether or not the 'lies' of literature could actually be morally 'profitable.' Could one actually benefit by taking certain fictions 'seriously'? Each of the five chapters examines a different dimension of this question by highlighting a particular dramatization of economic trust on the Renaissance stage, in plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Heywood, Dekker, and Jonson.

The book fills a gap in current scholarship by keeping economic and dramatic interests rigorously grounded in early modern literary criticism, but also by emphasizing the productive nature of debt in a way that resonates with recent economic sociology.

By: Brian Sheerin
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780367175665
ISBN 10: 0367175665
Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 17 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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Brian Sheerin is Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature at St. Edward's University, USA.