Sick Economies Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England - Harris, Jonathan Gil (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
Biographical note: Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English at George Washington University and the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England
Main description: Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England teases out the double helix of the pathological and the economic in two seemingly disparate spheres of early modern textual production: drama and mercantilist writing