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    Vexed and Insatiable: Unfeelable Feelings and the Marketplace of Early Modern Drama

    This chapter examines the depiction of unruly emotional responses to economic practice in early modern English drama. It focuses specifically on potentially inaccessible structures of desire and anger, such as...

    Adam Zucker in Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (2020)

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    The Social Stakes of Gambling in Early Modern London

    Simmel’s concept of “play” positions sociable behaviors such as gambling and flirting as abstract enactments of society’s “serious relationships.” Flirting, Simmel suggests, is a strictly formal, or “play” ver...

    Adam Zucker in Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550–1650 (2010)

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    Introduction

    The essays in this collection present a series of short-focus views of England’s theatrical culture between the years 1625 and 1642. Taken as a composite, they establish a new wide-angle shot of texts and insti.....

    Adam Zucker, Alan B. Farmer in Localizing Caroline Drama (2006)