Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of His Time

by Lars Engle

Just as Shakespeare's theater was an economic gamble, subject to the workings of a market, so the plays themselves submit actions, persons, and motives to an audience's judgment. Such a theatrical economy, Lars Engle suggests, provides a model for the way in which truth is determined and assessed in the world at large--a model much like that offered by contemporary pragmatism.

To Engle, the problems of worth, price, and value that appear so...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226209423
• ISBN13: 9780226209425
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"