• "The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel": Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice

    Author(s):
    Steve Mentz (see profile)
    Date:
    2003
    Group(s):
    Global Shakespeares, LLC 16th-Century English, LLC Shakespeare
    Subject(s):
    Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Shakespeare, Economic criticism
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6K84P
    Abstract:
    A focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia's fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda Woodbridge's 2003 collection, Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism (Palgrave).
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    Publisher:
    Palgrave
    Pub. Date:
    2003
    Book Title:
    Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism
    Author/Editor:
    Linda Woodbridge
    Chapter:
    \"The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel\": Launcelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice
    Page Range:
    177 - 188
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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