Risky Business: The Discourse of Credit and Early Modern Female Playwrights Before Defoe

This dissertation shows that early modern female playwrights were shaped by and helped to shape commercial literary marketplaces that were increasingly affected by the rise of credit, shifting exchange values, and unstable notions of trust, interest, and economic motivation. By looking at how their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beggs, Courtney Beth
Other Authors: Ezell, Margaret
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8287