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• Title:
  Economic Nationalism in Haughton’s Englishmen for My Money and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
• Creator:
  Baldo, Jonathan
• Contributor:
  University of Rochester
• Description:
  Close to the time of Elizabeth’s expulsion of the Hanseatic merchants and the closing of the Steelyard (der Stahlhof) in the years 1597-98, two London plays engaged extensively with the business of trade, the merchant class, foreign merchants, and moneylending: early modern England’s first city comedy, William Haughton’s Englishmen for My Money, or A Woman Will Have Her Will (1598); and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (registered 22 July 1598). Whereas Haughton’s play uses foreignness, embodied in a foreign merchant, three half-English daughters, and three foreign suitors, as a means of promoting national consciousness and pride, Shakespeare indirectly uses the foreign not to unify but to reveal the divisions within England’s own economic values and culture.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0
• Date:
  2016.06.13;
  2016.04.22
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Lodz University Press
• Relation:
  Multicultural Shakespeare;13
• Subject:
  economic;
  nationalism;
  Shakespeare;
  William Haughton;
  Steelyard;
  Queen Elizabeth;
  The Merchant of Venice;
  Englishmen for My Money;
  satisfaction;
  contentment;
  usury;
  interest
• Identifier:
  2083-8530;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/18335 ;
  2300-7605;
  10.1515/mstap-2016-0005
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  other