Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England.(Book Review)

Shakespeare Studies | January 1, 2005| | Copyright

Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England By Jonathan Gil Harris Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004

Sick Economies focuses on an aspect of early English economic thought, mercantilism, which has remained offstage during the past decade of lively conversation about theater and economic practice. Approaching mercantilism as an ongoing debate about the virtues of transnational finance and trade (rather than a defined period or commercial policy), Harris shows how deeply that debate engaged contemporary theories of ...

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