OF BONDAGE. Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England.

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Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, author Amanda Bailey looks at the role of debt in the context of the early modern theatre, showing how the bodily ownership implications of creditor-debtor relations of the period were artistically portrayed on stage, through Shakespeare's 'Timon of Athens' (with Thomas Middleton) and 'The Merchant of Venice', among others.