 | Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan 1500–1600 -- History and criticism; Economics in literature; Literature and globalization; Literature and society -- England; Drama -- Economic aspects -- England; Theater -- Economic aspects -- England; Thea; Valerie Forman contends that three seemingly unrelated domains--new economic theories and practices; the discourses of Christian redemption; and the rise of tragicomedy as the stage's most popular genre--were together crucial to the formulation of a new and paradoxical way of thinking about loss and profit in relationship to one another. Valerie Forman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. |
