Networks of Social Debt in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Description:
This thesis argues that social debt profoundly transformed the environment in which literature was produced and experienced in the early modern period. In each chapter, I examine the various ways in which social debt affected Renaissance writers and the literature they produced. While considering the cultural changes regarding patronage, love, friendship, and debt, I will analyze the poetry and drama of Ben Jonson, Lady Mary Wroth, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Middleton. Each of these writer…
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Date:
August 2014
Creator:
Criswell, Christopher C.
Partner:
UNT Libraries