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

by Katherine Gillen

Book Overview

Examines the way that theatrical representations of chastity inform broader concerns about the commoditisation of people in early capitalism
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. Plays invoke chastity--itself a quasi-commodity--to interrogate the relationship between personal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474444385
• ISBN13: 9781474444385
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"