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

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
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
263 pages ; 25 cm
9780812237733, 0812237730
52714530
1. The Asian flu; or, the pathological drama of national economy
2. Syphilis and trade: Thomas Starkey, Thomas Smith, The comedy of errors
3. Taint and usury: Gerard Malynes, the Dutch church libel, The merchant of Venice
4. Canker/Serpego and value: Gerard Malynes, Troilus and Cressida
5. Plague and transmigration: Timothy Bright, Thomas Milles, Volpone
6. Hepatitis/castration and treasure: Edward Misselden, Gerard Malynes, The fair maid of the west, the Renegado
7. Consumption and consumption: Thomas Mun, the roaring girl
8. Afterword: anthrax, cyberworms, and the new ethereal economy