Chaste Value : Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare's Stage

Name: Chaste Value
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9781474417716
Price: 18900 KES
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ISBN: 9781474417716

by Katherine Gillen

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Format Hardback

Book Series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy

ISBN-10 147441771X

ISBN-13 9781474417716

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 10th, 2017

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 630 grams

Dimensions 16.50 x 24.10 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies: plays and playwrights Shakespeare studies & criticism

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Chaste Value reassesses chastity’s significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage’s production of early capitalist subjectivity and social difference.

Examines the way that theatrical representations of chastity inform broader concerns about the commoditisation of people in early capitalismChaste Value reassesses chastity''s significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage''s production of early capitalist subjectivity and social difference. Plays invoke chastity-itself a quasi-commodity-to interrogate the relationship between personal and economic value. Through chastity discourse, the stage disrupts pre-capitalist ideas of intrinsic value while also reallocating such value according to emerging hierarchies of gender, race, class, and nationality. Chastity, therefore, emerges as a central category within early articulations of humanity, determining who possesses intrinsic value and, conversely, whose bodies and labor can be incorporated into market exchange.

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