Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love and Money
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195128613 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Based on the proven maxim that "money makes the world go round," this engaging study draws from Shakespeare's texts to present a lexicon of common words, as well as a variety of familiar familial and cultural situations, in an economic context. Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, Turner demonstrates that the terms of money and value permeate our minds and lives even in our most mundane moments. A bond is both a legal or financial obligation, and a connection of mutual love. As the play turns out, Cordelia proves to be an exemplary and loving daughter. These examples are the pith of Frederick Turner's fascinating new book. 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 legal and economic contract. "I love you according to my bond," says Cordelia to her father in King Lear. His book offers a new, humane, evolutionary economics that fully expresses the moral, spiritual, and aesthetic relationship
Frederick Turner is at University of Texas at Dallas.
of Texas, Dallas) proposes that an examination of Shakespeare's plays will provide us with a wiser and more complex view of the economic bonds that form the basis of human relationships. . Sadowski, Norwood, MA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Mixing criticism, economics, and self-help, Turner (English, Univ. While some assumptions and a lack of scholarly detail may prove frustrating, readers will certainly find food for thought in this otherwise gracefully presented text. He sees Shakespeare as a forefather of a line of thinkers who espoused ideas we may not presently be comfortable with (e.g., that the "establishment of just government is fundamentally a matter of property rights and only secondarily one of political or even human rights") but that have been reinforced by recent world events. Recommended for larger public and academic libraries.AKaren E. Whereas many recent critics have attempted to fracture the myth of th
"Business as the core of a Culture of Hope" according to Christopher Chantrill. If you are trying to "Escape from Modernism," to transcend the ironical postmodern culture of despair with a "Culture of Hope," this book will enchant you. If you believe that the world is drenched in racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia, not to mention US imperialism, then this book may teach you a lesson. In "Shakespeare" Turner finds it intriguing that business uses words like "bond" "trust" "interest" and "honor" that are used in social dis. "New Economy Utopia meets Bardolotry" according to A Customer. This is one of the shoddiest books on Shakespeare I have ever read. Its basic approach is to assert some facile generalities about how free market economies help everybody and then find them in Shakespeare by means of very selective quotation. In effect, the book attempts to use the prestige of The Bard's Universal Spirit to prove or lend legitimacy to free market ideas. Its readings of Shakespeare are uninteresting. It waves away 200 years of more