The merchants of Ephesus and how money never really mattered -- Shakespeare's England : The merry wives of Windsor's bourgeois cash values -- "My purse, my person" : conflating the economic and the personal in The merchant of Venice -- The exchange economy of Measure for measure : "you will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts" -- Reconciling the two Timons : Shakespeare's philanthropist and Middleton's prodigal