Wives, Courtesans, and the Economics of Love in Jacobean City Comedy

Authors

Richard Horwich, Brooklyn College

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, the first paragraph of the essay follows:

Several writers of Jacobean city comedy¹ seem to have anticipated the 19th-century axiom that marriage and money are the only subjects worth writing about, for many of these plays deal with little else, and in such a way as to make the pursuit of love and the pursuit of wealth virtually indistinguishable from one another.

Recommended Citation

Horwich, Richard (1973) "Wives, Courtesans, and the Economics of Love in Jacobean City Comedy," Comparative Drama: Vol. 7: Iss. 4, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/compdr/vol7/iss4/3