Forgiving the Gift: The Philosophy of Generosity in Shakespeare and Marlowe

by Sean Lawrence

Book Overview

Forgiving the Gift challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges, negotiations, and circulations. Lawrence reads plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare as informed by an early modern belief in the possibility and even necessity of radical generosity, of gifts that break the cycle of economy and self-interest.

The prologue reads Marlowe's Dr. Faustus to show how the play aligns gift and grace,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271092963
• ISBN13: 9780271092966
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"