Seabright

The adaptive characters are Beaumont and Morgan, relatives of Seabright’s first wife, and Robert, her “foster-brother” (1.1.199), who is something more than a servant but less than a guest in Seabright’s house and who has the traits of Meeker’s tricksters.

Joanna Baillie’s Ecotopian Comedies 2008

While visiting with a Russian economic minister, Seabright was asked, "We understand that market economies work and are trying to adopt such a system, but could you tell me who runs the bread production for London?"

James Webb's Macaca, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Warsh's article discusses a book by Paul Seabright that analyzes how human trade evolved.

Hostility Toward Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

You [Seabright] write that it is through the construction of economic institutions and rules that we have learned to cooperate with and trust one another, first of all as individuals and in more recent years as nation states.

Hostility Toward Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Sarah is certainly not welcomed into the Seabright household, and the ways in which the characters talk about her gives us a sense of societal views toward spinsters, even spinsters turned stepmothers.

Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillie’s Comedies 2008

Words spoken by Lady Sarah throughout the play also shed light upon her characterization, her sexuality, her complicated female role in the play as well as in the Seabright home.

Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillie’s Comedies 2008

"Factors which increase trust in society are not necessarily a good thing, because they can increase the bonds between gang members, whose main economic success comes from extorting or coercing other people," explains Seabright.

The Economics Of Trust 2010

Sarah will return home, a married spinster now, not legally single, not legally divorced, not even a stepmother, for she is not afforded occasional visits with Tony and Sophia Seabright, the children with whom she eventually made some maternal connections.

Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillie’s Comedies 2008

"Factors which increase trust in society are not necessarily a good thing, because they can increase the bonds between gang members, whose main economic success comes from extorting or coercing other people," explains Seabright.

The Economics Of Trust 2010

For Beaumont, Seabright “has married a woman who is narrow-minded naturally,” a disposition strengthened by her circumstances, for “she has long been left, as a single woman, to support high rank upon a very small income, and has lived much with those to whom begging and solicitations are not disgrace” (3.1.212).

Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillie’s Comedies 2008