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Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial: Economic Sovereignty, Globalization, And The Form Of Tragicomedy, Zachary Lesser
Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial: Economic Sovereignty, Globalization, And The Form Of Tragicomedy, Zachary Lesser
Zachary Lesser
I examine the politics of tragicomedy by focusing on its 1620s shift from pastoral to proto-colonial settings. This formal transformation reveals the genre's connection to economic debates over England's coin shortage and to Thomas Mun's abstract, global model of trade, removed from monarchical authority and naturalized in self-regulating "laws of commerce." Like Mun's model, tragicomedy requires us to imagine the ability of past actions and distant causes to ramify across time and space. Set on a barren, inaccessible island, Fletcher and Massinger's Sea Voyage isolates the nature of money and demonstrates the dangers of transgressing the natural law of commerce.
Mystic Ciphers: Shakespeare And Intelligent Design: A Response To Nancy Glazener, Zachary Lesser
Mystic Ciphers: Shakespeare And Intelligent Design: A Response To Nancy Glazener, Zachary Lesser
Zachary Lesser
A discussion of the Shakespeare "authorship controversy" in relation to the "debate" over evolution and intelligent design.