{"product_id":"9781408144558","title":"A Chaste Maid in Cheapside","description":"Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613,\u003cbr\u003ethis master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature\u003cbr\u003eeven in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in\u003cbr\u003eLondon's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is more\u003cbr\u003eimportant than either happiness or honour; and the most coveted\u003cbr\u003ecommodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Middleton\u003cbr\u003einterweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marry\u003cbr\u003etheir children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any more\u003cbr\u003efor fear of poverty, or to acquire some in order to keep their property\u003cbr\u003ein the family. Most prosperous is the husband who pimps his wife to a\u003cbr\u003erich knight and lets him support the household with his alimony. Like\u003cbr\u003emany early modern critics of London's enormous growth, this play\u003cbr\u003ewarned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the country\u003cbr\u003eproduces.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138004304112,"sku":"9781408144558","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408144558_p0.jpg?v=1763718051","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408144558","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}