"Magic of bounty": Timon of Athens, Jacobean Patronage, and Maternal Power

Kahn, Coppélia

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“…13 Some critics opine that this similarity between Timon and James I, which can also be seen in their love of hunting and horses, would not have seemed respectful on stage. They argue that this was probably the reason why the play remained incomplete and was never performed during Shakespeare’s lifetime [Kahn 1987: 55-56]. But, undoubtedly, the culture Shakespeare depicts is not merely literary: it is a moral reference for European aristocracy.…”

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Prodigality, Avarice and Anger

Fontaine¹

2018

Arch. eur. sociol.

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In a status society, such as early modern Europe, the development of the market economy threatened social hierarchies. At a time when religion was the source of power, priests and warriors strove to protect themselves from what was a foreseeable attack going to the very root of their domination, which was jeopardized by the potentialities of the capitalist economy. They therefore developed religious, legal and moral tools to counter capital accumulation and interest-bearing loans in order to break the motor of capitalism. Avarice, one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and usury, which was punished by excommunication, were the moral weapons used to exclude those from the community who hoarded money or who charged, however little, interest on loans. But whereas greed, the disease of market exchange, was considered one of the Seven Deadly Sins, prodigality, which lies at the heart of aristocratic exchange, was considered one of the Seven Heavenly Virtues. Contemporary theatre, with its misers and spendthrifts, is a perfect place to hear echoes of the struggles between the antagonistic values in society, and to follow the way in which individuals reacted to the conflicts that these struggles provoked.The essay is based on literary works reflecting behaviors that could also be echoed in judicial archives and in texts from writers of the time. It analyses plays from Shakespeare (Timon of Athens, The Merchant of Venice), Ben Jonson (Volpone) and Molière (The Miser).

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Prodigality, Avarice and Anger

Fontaine¹

2018

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“…28 Yet, Seneca's work remains largely unexplored for its contribution to ideas about conducting friendship, and is mainly described and considered critically as 'the most influential treatise of the Renaissance on gift-giving per se' . 29 Notably, however, David Wootton has read De beneficiis as one of three classical texts that are 'prolonged meditations on friendship' . 30 Overall, Cicero's ideas have received far more attention for their influence in the early modern period than Seneca's, although Seneca's influence was thoughtfully re-considered in Gordon Braden's substantive work, Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition (1985).…”

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‘Receyving of Freendshipe’: Seneca's De Benificiis and Early Modern Amicable Relations

Trevor

2011

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“…This promise is fraught with difficulties of the kind that Ken Jackson, building on the work of Marcel Mauss (1990) and Coppélia Kahn (1987), discusses in his thoughtful essay on Timon of Athens (2001). The reader might be willing to see Hal's apparently absurd generosity as matching that which Francis has shown; that is, given their economic difference, a pennyworth of sugar to Francis may be similar to a thousand pounds to the Prince.…”

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Spiritual Shakespeares

Ruiter¹

2005

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in secular materialism, theology, or contemporary theory. That at least is what the present collection sets out so suggestively to show.John D. Caputo (from the Foreword)Readers will find here an engagement with both Shakespeare and spirituality which is intelligent, original, and challengingly optimistic, one which surely succeeds in its wish to 'reinvigorate and strengthen politically progressive materialist criticism'. Jonathan Dollimore (from the Afterword)Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the 'religious turn' in recent thought and to the spiritualised politics of terrorism and the 'War on Terror'. Opening a genuinely new perspective within Shakespeare Studies, this volume suggests that experiencing the spiritual intensities of the plays could lead us back to dramatic intensity as such. It tests spirituality from a political perspective, as well as subjecting politics to an unusual spiritual critique. Among its controversial and provocative arguments is the idea that a consideration of spirituality might point the way forward for materialist criticism.

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"Magic of bounty": Timon of Athens, Jacobean Patronage, and Maternal Power

Cited by 81 publications

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Prodigality, Avarice and Anger

Prodigality, Avarice and Anger

‘Receyving of Freendshipe’: Seneca's De Benificiis and Early Modern Amicable Relations

Spiritual Shakespeares

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