Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "The wind that bloweth all the world besides--desire for gold"; Chapter One The Merchants of Ephesus and How Money Never Really Mattered; Chapter Two Shakespeare's England: The Merry Wives of Windsor's Bourgeois Cash Values; Chapter Three "My purse, my person": Conflating the Economic and the Personal in The Merchant of Venice; Chapter Four The Exchange Economy of Measure for Measure: "You will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts."
Summary
Working€from the perspective of the€new economic criticism, this study€uses close reading and historical contextualization to examine the relationship between interpersonal relationships and economics in the plays of Shakespeare
