Comedy and Crisis: Pieter Langendijk, the Dutch, and the Speculative Bubbles of 1720

by Joyce Goggin and Frans De Bruyn

Book Overview

Comedy and Crisis contains the first ever scholarly English translation of Pieter Langendijk's Quincampoix, or the Wind Traders Quincampoix of de Windhandelaars], and Harlequin Stock-Jobber Arlequin Actionist]. The first play is a full-length satirical comedy, and the second is a short, comic harlequinade; both were written in Dutch in response to the speculative financial crisis or bubble of 1720 and were performed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802078819
• ISBN13: 9781802078817
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"