Sick economies : drama, mercantilism, and disease in Shakespeare's England

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Label

Sick economies : drama, mercantilism, and disease in Shakespeare's England

Title remainder

drama, mercantilism, and disease in Shakespeare's England

Statement of responsibility

Jonathan Gil Harris

Creator

• Harris, Jonathan Gil

Subject

• Diseases in literature
• Economics -- history
• Economics in literature
• England
• England -- Economic conditions -- 17th century
• English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
• English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
• Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 16th century
• Disease -- psychology
• Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Literature, Modern -- history
• Medicine in Literature
• Mercantile system -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
• Mercantile system -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge | Economics
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge | Medicine
• Vocabulary
• Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 16th century

Language

eng

Summary

The author integrates feminism, materialist criticism, and legal history to offer a look at how women's management of household goods became an important site of female struggle and resistance to England's patrilinear property regime

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

822.3/3

Index

index present

LC call number

PR658.E35

LC item number

H37 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography