Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love and Money

by Frederick Turner and Frederick Turner

"I love you according to my bond," says Cordelia to her father in King Lear. As the play turns out, Cordelia proves to be an exemplary and loving daughter. A bond is both a legal or financial obligation, and a connection of mutual love. How are these things connected? In As You Like It, Shakespeare describes marriage as a "blessed bond of board and bed" the emotional, religious, and sexual sides of marriage cannot be detached from its status as a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195128613
• ISBN13: 9780195128611
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"