Ebook: Of bondage: debt, property, and personhood in early modern England

Focusing on dramatic literature's contribution to the developing narrative of possessed persons, Of Bondage deepens our understanding of creditor-debtor relations in the period and sheds new light on the conceptual conditions for the institutions of indentured servitude and African slavery.;Introduction: Bound Bodies and the Theater of Debt -- Chapter 1. Timon of Athens, Forms of Payback, and the Genre of Debt -- Chapter 2. Shylock and the Slaves: Owing and Owning in The Merchant of Venice -- Chapter 3. Michaelmas Term and the Problem of Satisfaction -- Chapter 4. Freedom, Bondage, and Redemption in The Custom of the Country -- Chapter 5. Prison Prose, the Pit, and the End of Tricks -- Epilogue: The Debtor and the Slave.