Pericles (Vol. 36) | Nona Fienberg (essay date 1982)
Nona Fienberg (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "Marina in Pericles: Exchange Values and the Art of Moral Discourse," in Iowa State Journal of Research, Vol. 57, No. 2, November, 1982, pp. 153-61.
[Here, Fienberg discusses the economic metaphors of Pericles in relation to Marina's character, arguing that by selling moral discourse instead of her body "Marina acknowledges the market system, yetremains uncorrupted by it."]
In his essay, "Of Truth" (1625), Francis Bacon distinguishes between "theological and philosophical truth" and the truth of "civil business." While he further distinguishes between the poets, whose harmless lies give pleasure, and the merchants, who lie "for advantage," both stand in the second category of the truth of civil business, since both participate in the nascent spirit of capitalism of seventeenth-century London. A spokesman for his economic world, Bacon frames his essay with a cynical portrayal of truth...
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