Prodigality in Early Modern Drama
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 15952
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Boydell and Brewer
- ISBN
- 978-1843845423
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book adapts the research completed over a four year PhD, plus another two years of additional research and writing. It analyses plays and religious materials about prodigality over a large time period, 1500-1642, which included significant use of primary sources from the University of Cambridge libraries and British Library. It presents the first definition and exploration of the concept of prodigality -- the idea of immorally excessive financial expenditure -- which became crucial to the emergent celebration of proto-capitalism in early modern England, and examines its philosophical, theological, and dramaturgical contexts.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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