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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...
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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...
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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.....