Dr. Peter F. Grav currently lectures at the School of Graduate Studies and the Department of English at the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate degrees in Education and English Literature at the University of Ottawa and his Master’s and PhD in English Literature at the University of Toronto.

• 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: Chapter Five: Reconciling the Two Timons: Shakespeare’s Philanthropist and Middleton’s Prodigal Conclusion: What’s aught but as ‘tis valued? Notes Index

Dr. Peter F. Grav currently lectures at the School of Graduate Studies and the Department of English at the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate degrees in Education and English Literature at the University of Ottawa and his Master’s and PhD in English Literature at the University of Toronto.

• 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: Chapter Five: Reconciling the Two Timons: Shakespeare’s Philanthropist and Middleton’s Prodigal Conclusion: What’s aught but as ‘tis valued? Notes Index

Dr. Peter F. Grav currently lectures at the School of Graduate Studies and the Department of English at the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate degrees in Education and English Literature at the University of Ottawa and his Master’s and PhD in English Literature at the University of Toronto.

• 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: Chapter Five: Reconciling the Two Timons: Shakespeare’s Philanthropist and Middleton’s Prodigal Conclusion: What’s aught but as ‘tis valued? Notes Index