Graham Holderness is the author of numerous books on literary criticism, theory, and scholarship, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama. His most recent works include The Faith of William Shakespeare (Lion Books, 2016), Tales from Shakespeare: Creative Collisions (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Re-writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century Fiction and Film (Bloomsbury, November 2014), and the historical fantasy novel Black and Deep Desires: William Shakespeare Vampire Hunter (Top Hat Books, 2015).
Introduction
Graham Holderness
Chapter 1. Shakespeare and Derivatives
David Hawkes
Chapter 2. Shakespeare, Reciprocity, and Exchange
John Drakakis
Chapter 3. Offshore Desires: Mobility, Liquidity, and History in Shakespeare's Mediterranean
Rui Carvalho Homem
Chapter 4. Pity Silenced: Economics of Mercy in The Merchant of Venice
Alessandra Marzola
Chapter 5. 'Love Merchandized': Money in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Manfred Pfister
Chapter 6. Timon of Athens in the Downturn
James Tink
Chapter 7. 'Fill thy purse with money': Financing Performance in Shakespearean England
Tiffany Stern
Chapter 8. Biography and Shakespeare's Money: Portraits of an Economic Persona
Paola Pugliatti
Chapter 9. Shakespeare and the Hybrid Economy
Sujata Iyengar
Afterthought: 'Best for Winter'
Graham Holderness