 | Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare''s England Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Economics in literature; Mercantile system -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Mercantile system -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Shakespeare William ; Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England teases out the double helix of the pathological and the economic in two seemingly disparate spheres of early modern textual production: drama and mercantilist writing. Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English at George Washington University and the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England. |
