Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity And The Production Of Social Difference On Shakespeare'S Stage (Edinburgh Critical Studies In Shakespeare And Philosophy) - 9781474417716

Chaste Value reassesses chastity's significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage's production of early capitalist subjectivity and social difference. Plays invoke chastity-itself a quasi-commodity-to interrogate the relationship between personal and economic value. Through chastity discourse, the stage disrupts pre-capitalist ideas of intrinsic value while also reallocating such value according to emerging hierarchies of gender, race, class, and nationality. Chastity, therefore, emerges as a central category within early articulations of humanity, determining who possesses intrinsic value and, conversely, whose bodies and labor can be incorporated into market exchange.

• | Author: Katherine Gillen
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 147441771X
• | ISBN-13: 9781474417716