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Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies
2014
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- Bassanio's bailout: A brief history of risk, Shakespeare to Wall Street Richard Halpern Lengua y Literatura CF risk Hegel finance Ulrich Beck Shakespeare's most searching anatorny of risk, TIte Merchant oj Venice depicts the wagering not only of money but of love and life itself. This paper pIaces Merchant in a long history that traces the concept of risk from classical theatre to medieval scholasticism to modern sociology. Over the course of this history, the moral and economic dimensions of risk become increasingly fugitive and unmappable. Shakespeare's play illustrates this process in miniature, and in so doing casts light on OUT contemporary "risk society," including the financial meltdown of 2008. 2014 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333540984002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.24