Lucie Alden
b. ????
Nationality: American
Historical Period: The 20th Century and Beyond
Lucie Alden is a Ph.D Candidate in English at the University of Virginia where she specializes in early modern literature, book history, and political economy. Her dissertation, Playing for Profit: Staging Self-interest in Early Modern England, uses the works of Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Middleton to examine conflicting conceptions of self-interest on the early modern stage and printed page.
In The Reading Room:
- Lear: a King and Play in Exile ()
- “Out, damned spot.” Out Shakespeare. ()
- “Don’t be such a Machiavel.” Actually, do. ()
- Marlowe’s Machiavels and Malta’s Broken Markets ()
- Measure for Measure: Duke Vincentio as Impartial Spectator ()
- Shylock on Rats and Rational Choice ()
- No Such Thing as a Free Salad Chez Shakespeare ()
- Time to Trim the Fat: Prince Hal on self-love ()
- “Put money in thy purse”: Shakespeare and Investment ()