Urban Citizens in Early Modern Drama
City, Nation, and Commerce
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2026
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-46702-6 (ISBN)
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
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Citizenship in Shakespeare’s England was not attached to nationality but rather to one’s city and employment. In this study of urban citizenship, William Casey Caldwell explores the range of economic relationships which existed through a range of dramatic texts.
Revealing how citizenship was defined along urban lines and controlled by early forms of corporations, Caldwell argues that playwrights at the time used this context to imagine new opportunities for non-citizens. By returning us to its commercial and urban bases, Urban Citizenship in Early Modern Drama exposes how playwrights such as Shakespeare, Francis Beaumont, and William Haughton used extant and emergent financial instruments and relationships to rethink the economic foundations of citizenship in London. From Shylock’s bid to make a debt bond to procreate with a citizen in The Merchant of Venice to the monetized form of toleration directed towards a Portuguese denizen’s daughters in Englishmen for My Money, this book explores how plays provided their audience - many of whom would not have been citizens either - with critical and performative forms of citizenship defined by the intersection of job and city.
Revealing how citizenship was defined along urban lines and controlled by early forms of corporations, Caldwell argues that playwrights at the time used this context to imagine new opportunities for non-citizens. By returning us to its commercial and urban bases, Urban Citizenship in Early Modern Drama exposes how playwrights such as Shakespeare, Francis Beaumont, and William Haughton used extant and emergent financial instruments and relationships to rethink the economic foundations of citizenship in London. From Shylock’s bid to make a debt bond to procreate with a citizen in The Merchant of Venice to the monetized form of toleration directed towards a Portuguese denizen’s daughters in Englishmen for My Money, this book explores how plays provided their audience - many of whom would not have been citizens either - with critical and performative forms of citizenship defined by the intersection of job and city.
William Casey Caldwell is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Carthage College, USA.
Introduction: Citizenship, Money, Theater
Chapter 1. Performative Economies of Citizenship from Mankind to The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Chapter 2. Homoerotic Citizenship and the Uses of Procreation in The Merchant of Venice
Chapter 3. Denizenship and the Price of Toleration in Englishmen for My Money
Chapter 4. Poor Citizens and Counter-Aristocratic Performativity in Coriolanus
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.9.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-46702-2 / 1350467022 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-46702-6 / 9781350467026 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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