Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Chastity and the Question of Value
- 1 Chastity and the Ethics of Commercial Theatre in Measure for Measure, Pericles and The Revenger's Tragedy
- 2 Commercial Chastity and Aristocratic Value in Troilus and Cressida, The White Devil and The Changeling
- 3 Chaste Selfhood: Ben Jonson's Critique of Urban Chastity Tropes
- 4 Chastity and Blackness: Racial Value and Commodity Potential in The Fair Maid of the West, Part I and Othello
- 5 Mediterranean Markets, Commoditised Masculinity and the Whitening of Christian Chastity in The Merchant of Venice and The Renegado
- 6 Chaste Treasure and National Identity in The Rape of Lucrece and Cymbeline
- Coda: Approaching Capitalist Modernity
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Chastity and the Question of Value
- 1 Chastity and the Ethics of Commercial Theatre in Measure for Measure, Pericles and The Revenger's Tragedy
- 2 Commercial Chastity and Aristocratic Value in Troilus and Cressida, The White Devil and The Changeling
- 3 Chaste Selfhood: Ben Jonson's Critique of Urban Chastity Tropes
- 4 Chastity and Blackness: Racial Value and Commodity Potential in The Fair Maid of the West, Part I and Othello
- 5 Mediterranean Markets, Commoditised Masculinity and the Whitening of Christian Chastity in The Merchant of Venice and The Renegado
- 6 Chaste Treasure and National Identity in The Rape of Lucrece and Cymbeline
- Coda: Approaching Capitalist Modernity
- Index
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- Chaste ValueEconomic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare's Stage, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017