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The Visible God examines the semiotics of wealth, in its various representations, in select works from the ancient Greco-Roman comic tradition represented by Aristophanes and Plautus and from the tradition's inheritors in two later periods through Lucian and Shakespeare.

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chapter 1 Acknowledgments chapter 2 Author's Note chapter 3 Introduction chapter 4 Allegory, Recontainment, Possibility: Aristophane's Peace and Plautus chapter 5 The Masks of Money: Plautus' Auluaria and Trinummus, Vicissitudes of Wealth in Lucian's Timon or the Misanthrope chapter 6 Everything Becomes Allegory: The Instrumentalization of Wealth in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens chapter 7 Bibliography chapter 8

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      Publisher: University Press of America
      Publication Date: 24/04/1999
      ISBN13: 9780761812524, 978-0761812524
      ISBN10: 0761812520

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Visible God examines the semiotics of wealth, in its various representations, in select works from the ancient Greco-Roman comic tradition represented by Aristophanes and Plautus and from the tradition's inheritors in two later periods through Lucian and Shakespeare.

      Table of Contents
      chapter 1 Acknowledgments chapter 2 Author's Note chapter 3 Introduction chapter 4 Allegory, Recontainment, Possibility: Aristophane's Peace and Plautus chapter 5 The Masks of Money: Plautus' Auluaria and Trinummus, Vicissitudes of Wealth in Lucian's Timon or the Misanthrope chapter 6 Everything Becomes Allegory: The Instrumentalization of Wealth in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens chapter 7 Bibliography chapter 8

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