The Language of the Emerging Financial Market and Early Eighteenth-Century English Plays

The Language of the Emerging Financial Market and Early Eighteenth-Century English Plays

Between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth the birth and development of a flourishing financial market provided the English stage with a variety of new characters, situations and subjects. Most of the plays were written and/or performed in 1720, when the bursting...

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Main Author: Laura Favero Carraro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Economic & Business History Society 2019-06-01
Series:Essays in Economic and Business History
Online Access:https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/4
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