How are money, the marketplace, and questions of economic exchange relevant to studying Shakespeare? To find out, Neema interviews David Hawkes, author of Shakespeare and Economic Theory for the Arden Shakespeare and Theory Series. .
Click here to listen to the program David Hawkes: Money, Finance, and the Power of Symbols – Against the Grain – March 7, 2012 at 12:00pm | KPFA 94.1 FM Radio At the heart of the global economy, a regime dominated by lending and finance, is a symbol we call money. What does this say […]
David Hawkes took his B.A. at Oxford University, and his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Columbia University. He is the author of many books: Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580-1680 (Palgrave), Ideology (Routledge), The Faust Myth: Religion and the Rise of Representation (Palgrave), John Milton: A Hero of Our Time (Counterpoint) and The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England (Palgrave).
Hawkes is a Professor of English at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
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David Hawkes Top 5 Articles
• David Hawkes, 'How Noam Chomsky's World Works,' Times Literary Supplement, 8/29/12, pp.3-5 (Link)
• David Hawkes, 'The Evolution of Darwinism,' The Nation, 6/10/2002, pp.29-34 (Link)
• David Hawkes, ‘Milton and Usury,’ English Literary Renaissance 41:3, Autumn 2011, pp. 503-528
• David Hawkes, 'Fiction Sets You Free,' Times Literary Supplement, 10/24/2008, pp.24-5
• David Hawkes, ‘Faust among the Witches: Towards an Ethics of Representation,’ Early Modern Culture 4, 2004
• David Hawkes, ‘Against Materialism in Literary Theory,’ Early Modern Culture 9, 2012
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