The Sempter's Wares: Merchandising and Marrying in The Fair Maid of the Exchange (1607).

Demonstrates how handkerchiefs in the book 'The Fair Maid of the Exchange' map out the cultural anxieties about courtship and marriage practices that were mobilized by women's participation in early modern England's market economy. Participation of theater in negotiating and managing ideological change; Embodiment of social contradictions embedded within early modern marriage practices.