Performing Economic Thought:English Drama and Mercantile Writing 1600-1642

* Tell a friend * Recommend * Mailing ListProvides an original account of the relationship between economic thought and early modern dramaPerforming Economic Thought examines representations of economic exchange in English plays and mercantile treatises written between the chartering of the English East India Company in 1600 and the closing of the public playhouses at the outset of the English Civil War in 1642. These were crucial decades during which economic thinkers re-examined how they conceptualised and depicted commerce as a system.Adapting approaches pioneered by scholars working under the expansive rubric of Science Studies, Performing Economic Thought compares the formal features of treatises and plays, giving particular attention to those features unique to the theatrical experience (for example, the presence of props and actors' bodies and the position of the audience relative to the staged action) that allowed economic systems to be represented and conceptualised differently in the playhouse than in the printed treatise. The book argues that the representational techniques available to playwrights facilitated a more insightful exploration of economic systems than those available to economic writers

Narratives of Value in Richard Brome’s Dispute with the Salisbury Court

The bill and answer for the 1640 court of request proceedings constitute the extant evi­dence of the terms of two contracts between Richard Brome and the Salisbury Court, one signed in 1635 and the other drafted in 1638 but unsigned. Inferring from these documents key differences between the contracts, this essay argues that the first con­tract left crucial ambiguities about the value of Brome’s labour, and the company attempted to resolve these ambiguities to its advantage through the second contract and the bill of complaint. This evidence suggests a primarily antagonistic relationship between Brome and the Salisbury Court from 1636

The Compendium of Renaissance Drama

Contributor to the Character Dictionary for the following plays: “Heywood’s The Play of the Weather”, “Heywood’s The Pardoner and the Frere”, “Skelton’s Magnyfycence”, “Bale’s King Joan, Part 1”, “Bale’s King Joan, Part 2”, “Godly Queen Hester 1527”, “Somebody, Avarice and Minister (Somebody and Others, or the Spoiling of Lady Verity) 1550”, “Lupton’s All for Money 1577”, “Skelton’s Old Chrismas, or Good Order 1533”, “W. Wager’s The Cruel Debtor 1565”