Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-339) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Shakespeare and profit inflations -- The inherited economic order under Elizabeth -- The development of capitalist enterprise -- New elements in the national life -- Social theory -- Drama and society -- Tradition and Ben Jonson -- Jonson and the anti-acquisitive attitude -- Dekker, Heywood and citizen morality -- Middleton and the new social classes -- The significance of Massinger's social comedies: with a note on 'decadence'.
Note
A gift from the library of Myron Simon, 1928-2008.
