Comedy and Crisis contains the first ever scholarly English
translation of Pieter Langendijk’s Quincampoix, or the Wind
Traders [Quincampoix of de Windhandelaars], and Harlequin
Stock-Jobber [Arlequin Actionist]. The first play is a full-length
satirical comedy, and the second is a short, comic harlequinade;
both were written in Dutch in response to the speculative financial
crisis or bubble of 1720 and were performed in Amsterdam in the
fall of 1720, as the bubble in the Netherlands was bursting. Comedy
and Crisis also contains our translation of the extensive apparatus
prepared by C.H.P. Meijer (Introduction and notes) for his 1892
edition of these plays. The current editors have updated the
footnotes and added six new critical essays by contemporary
literary and historical scholars that contextualize the two plays
historically and culturally. The book includes an extensive
bibliography and index. The materials assembled in Comedy and
Crisis are a rich resource for cultural, historical, and literary
students of the history of finance and of eighteenth-century
studies.
General
Imprint: |
Liverpool University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Eighteenth Century Worlds, 9 |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2020 |
Editors: |
Joyce Goggin
• Frans De Bruyn
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80207-881-7 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-80207-881-9 |
Barcode: |
9781802078817 |
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