Early Modern Bonds of Trust - (Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama) by Alison Findlay & Helen Wilcox & Joseph Sterrett (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- The concepts of trust and risk provide important insights into the social and cultural life of early modern England but remain relatively unexplored in early modern literary studies.
- About the Author: Joseph Sterrett, Associate Professor of English Literature, Aarhus University, Denmark.
- 256 Pages
- Drama, European
- Series Name: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama
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About the Book
Explores the role of trust and risk to personal, communal and institutional relationships in early modern English texts.Book Synopsis
The concepts of trust and risk provide important insights into the social and cultural life of early modern England but remain relatively unexplored in early modern literary studies.This collection addresses that gap by exploring a wide range of literary genres and texts including comic drama, lyric verse, emblem books, ledgers, wills, polemical prose and religious epic. Contributors explore issues of personal trust through the faith and lies that characterize Shakespeare's sonnets, Donne's sermons and Milton's Paradise Lost. Following the idea of trust and risk into community brings us to a discussion of The Merry Wives of Windsor, the spiritual trust of faith communities and the network of relationships that are traceable though surviving records of women's wills. Following this progression outwards from the personal to the communal, the final essays in the collection consider the role of institutional trust, specifically the early modern obsession with credit in its various guises. The Merchant of Venice, Volpone and The Winter's Taleact as illustrative examples of credit's significance for understanding trust and risk in the early modern period. Taken together the range of texts and genres considered reveal new insights into early modern English literature and its socio-economic context.
About the Author
Joseph Sterrett, Associate Professor of English Literature, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Alison Findlay, Professor of Renaissance Drama, Lancaster University, UK.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .81 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.2 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: Drama
Sub-Genre: European
Series Title: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Format: Hardcover
Author: Alison Findlay & Helen Wilcox & Joseph Sterrett
Language: English
Street Date: April 24, 2025
TCIN: 1003183159
UPC: 9781350462007
Item Number (DPCI): 247-37-3946
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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