A "most odious spectacle": Capitalism, Sexuality and the Other(s) in Jacobean City Comedy

Lea K. Allen

Honors Senior Project

University of Maine at Presque Isle

28 April, 2000

Contents:

Introduction: The Theater and Theory ………………………………….…………...i-xv

Chapter One: "the devil can cite scripture": Capitalism and the Spectre of Shylock……………………………………………………….………….1-26

Chapter Two: "ramping cannibals" and "dove-like virgins": Technologies of Sexuality in The Dutch Courtesan……………………………….27-49

Chapter Three: "Women must have their longings, or they die": Capitalism as Gendered Discourse in Honest Whore (1604) and Chaste Maid of Cheapside (1613)……………………………….………………..50-75

Bibliography………………………………..……………………………………...76-82

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