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Long Bio
Bradley D. Ryner is the author of Performing Economic Thought: English Drama and Mercantile Writing, 1600-1642 (University of Edinburgh Press, 2014) and the co-editor, along with Darlene Farabee and Mark Netzloff, of Early Modern Drama in Performance: Essays in Honor of Lois Potter (University of Delaware Press, 2015). His teaching interests include: Shakespeare and Renaissance drama; British literature to 1700; drama as a genre; literary theory and cultural studies.
Education
Ph.D. University of Delaware
Research Interests
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama, history of economic thought, knowledge production, questions of ontology and agency in early English texts and society.
Publications
BOOK
Bradley D. Ryner. Performing Economic Thought: English Drama and Mercantile Writing, 1600-1642. (Edinburgh University Press, 2014).
EDITED COLLECTION
Early Modern Drama in Performance: Essays in Honor of Lois Potter, ed. Darlene Farabee, Mark Netzloff, and Bradley D. Ryner (University of Delaware Press, 2015)
SELECT ESSAYS
Bradley D. Ryner, “Narratives of Value in Richard Brome’s Dispute with the Salisbury Court” Early Theatre 23.3 (2020): 79-94.
Bradley D. Ryner, “‘To Look on Your Incestuous Eyes’: Knowledge, Matter, and Desire in Richard Brome’s The Queen’s Exchange and The New Academy,” Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Change and Exchange (2020): 159-180.
Bradley D. Ryner, “Money and Its Ideas: Justice, Sovereignty, and the Idea of Money as Commodity,” A Cultural History of Money, Vol. 2 (2019): 39-57.
Bradley D. Ryner, “Drama and Commodity Culture in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus,” Gathering Force: British Literature in Transition 1557-1623 (2019): 235-250.
Bradley D. Ryner, “The Usurer’s Theatrical Body: Refiguring Profit in The Jew of Malta and The Blind Beggar of Alexandria,” Early Modern Drama in Performance: Essays in Honor of Lois Potter (2015): 25-34.
Bradley D. Ryner. “The Cosmopolitical Economies of The Merchant of Venice and A New Way to Pay Old Debts,” Renaissance Drama 42.1 (2014): 141-167.
Bradley D. Ryner. "Anxieties of Currency Exchange in Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling,"Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2010): 109-125.
Bradley D. Ryner. "Not by Record but by Discourse: The Emergence of 'Economics' as a Genre," Elizabethan and Jacobean England: Sources and Documents of the English Renaissance (2010): 411-419.
Bradley D. Ryner. "Commodity Fetishism in Richard Brome’s A Mad Couple Well Matched and its Sources," Early Modern Literary Studies (2008): 4.1-26.
Bradley D. Ryner. "The Panoramic View in Mercantile Thought: Or, A Merchant's Map of Cymbeline," Global Traffic: Discourse and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700 (2008): 77-94.
Bradley Ryner. "Exchanging Battle: Objective and Subjective Conflict in The Battle of Maldon," English Studies (2006): 266-276.