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Staging republic and commerce in Massinger and Fletcher’s Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt

While Massinger and Fletcher’s The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt (1619) first performed almost immediately following the execution of the titular Dutch statesman, has often been treated as a document of Jacobean censorship, this essay examines the play as an analysis of the relationship between monarchy, mercantilism and the spectre of republicanism in the Low Countries, and implicitly England. The conflict between monarchical and republican government is not only dramatized through the rivalry between the Dutch political figures Maurice of Nassau and Barnavelt but represented in economic terms, as social bonds based on market exchange undermine power structures based on inherited social rank.