Comedy and Crisis Pieter Langendijk, the Dutch, and the Speculative Bubbles Of 1720 |
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| Author:
| Goggin, Joyce
De Bruyn, Frans |
| Series title: | Eighteenth Century Worlds LUP Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78962-220-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2020 |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $150.00 |
Book Description:
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Pieter Langendijk's two satirical plays about financial speculation, performed to popular acclaim after the collapse of the South Sea and the Mississippi bubbles, are here presented in a scholarly English translation. The plays offer an incisively comic view of the first international major financial crisis of the early modern era.
Pieter Langendijk's two satirical plays about financial speculation, performed to popular acclaim after the collapse of the South Sea and the Mississippi bubbles, are here presented in a scholarly English translation. The plays offer an incisively comic view of the first international major financial crisis of the early modern era.