Globalizing Fortune on The Early Modern Stage
Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Globalizing Fortune on The Early Modern Stage
Jane Hwang Degenhardt
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Explores the theme of fortune in early modern plays within the context of England's mercantile and colonial ventures, and provides original readings of several plays written for the London stage by dramatists including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Dekker.
Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.
This book adds much to our understanding of the early modern deployment of Fortune as both a literary trope and a framework for understanding the apparently arbitrary nature of earthly successes and catastrophes...The readings on which this characterization is built are fresh and lively, offering a wealth of new ideas in relation to an interesting mix of canonical and non-canonical texts that will make this book valuable to scholars and students well beyond those specifically interested in the histories of Fortune and trade.
Jane Hwang Degenhardt is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches classes on Shakespeare and his contemporaries as well as on racial trauma and social justice. Her scholarship focuses on early modern drama, with particular interests in the histories of race and religion, the effects of globalizing processes, and the relationship between literature and social justice. She is the author of Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage (2010), and co-editor, with Elizabeth Williamson, of Religion and Drama in Early Modern England. She is co-editor of the journal ELR.
Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.
This book adds much to our understanding of the early modern deployment of Fortune as both a literary trope and a framework for understanding the apparently arbitrary nature of earthly successes and catastrophes...The readings on which this characterization is built are fresh and lively, offering a wealth of new ideas in relation to an interesting mix of canonical and non-canonical texts that will make this book valuable to scholars and students well beyond those specifically interested in the histories of Fortune and trade.
Jane Hwang Degenhardt is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches classes on Shakespeare and his contemporaries as well as on racial trauma and social justice. Her scholarship focuses on early modern drama, with particular interests in the histories of race and religion, the effects of globalizing processes, and the relationship between literature and social justice. She is the author of Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage (2010), and co-editor, with Elizabeth Williamson, of Religion and Drama in Early Modern England. She is co-editor of the journal ELR.