JOURNAL ARTICLE

Speculative Enterprise: Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688–1763 by Mattie Burkert (review).

  • Published In: Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2023, v. 56, n. 4. P. 649 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Shanafelt, Carrie 3 of 3

Abstract

Mattie Burkert, Speculative Enterprise: Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688-1763 (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2021). According to Burkert, in the years after the South Sea Bubble, several playwrights engaged in a cynical and class-conscious critique of financial elites and the markets they manipulate for their own ends. In the two decades before the South Sea Bubble, many amateur investors saw risky financial investments as a possible path to greater wealth; Centlivre predicted that this is not, in fact, what would come of widespread involvement in financial markets. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2023/07, Vol. 56, Issue 4, p649
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0013-2586
  • DOI:10.1353/ecs.2023.a900673
  • Accession Number:164584212
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