TY - BOOK ID - 80833388 TI - Performing Economic Thought PY - 2022 SN - 0748684662 9780748684663 9780748684656 0748684654 074869711X PB - Edinburgh DB - UniCat KW - English drama KW - Mercantile system in literature. KW - Economics in literature. KW - Commerce in literature. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80833388 AB - This study examines the structural similarities between English mercantile treatises and drama c1600-1642. Bradley D. Ryner analyses the representational conventions of plays and mercantile treatises written between the chartering of the English East India Company in 1600 and the closing of the public playhouses at the outset of the English Civil War in 1642. He shows that playwrights' manipulation of specific elements of theatrical representation - such as metaphor, props, dramatic character, stage space, audience interaction, and genre - exacerbated the tension between the aspects of the wor ER -