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Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare´s Stage
Katherine Gillen
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Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474417716
SKU
V9781474417716
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About Katherine Gillen
Katherine Gillen is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Her work focuses on issues of economics, social difference, and theatrical representation in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Reviews for Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare´s Stage
Gillen's book digs deeply into the drama of the period, far beyond Shakespeare (despite its title), pursuing a host of problems currently at the forefront of scholarship: the methodology of the new economic criticism, how playwrights thought about the project of the commercial theater itself, and how early capitalism provoked new models of performative subjectivity, among other problems. ... Read more