Links Database: Keyword capitalism

• Granville's Jew of Venice (1701): A Close Reading of Shakespeare's Merchant

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/GRANVILL%20JEW_OF_V.txt

  Schneider, Ben Ross. "Granville's Jew of Venice (1701): A Close Reading of Shakespeare's Merchant." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies, 1992. Schneider examines the differences between Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Granville's early 18th-century adaptation of it, The Jew of Venice, and disputes the argument that Granville's text is Shakespeare's minus the capitalism:

  keywords: adaptation, capitalism, granville, jew, MV, merchant, source

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• The End of Absolutism

  http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v4no2/cefalu.htm

  Cefalu, Paul. "'The End of Absolutism': Shakespeare's Coriolanus and the Consensual Nature of the Early Modern State." Renaissance Forum 4.2 (2000). Cefalu argues against what he considers "transitionalist and capitalist misreadings of Coriolanus." He attempts to reinterpret the play based on recent historical work on the nature of the Tudor-Stuart state:

  keywords: coriolanus, state, government, class, politics, capitalism, tudor, jacobean

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Coriolanus

  valid as of 2007-01-10