Spenser and the 'Right Vsaunce' of wealth -- Love's exchequer, or the uses of pleasure in the English epyllion -- Fishing for gold : the political economy of Nashe's Lenten stuffe -- Shylock's 'sacred nation' : commerce, statehood, and the figure of the Jew in Marlowe's Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice -- Character, credit, and belief in Middleton's city comedies -- Britain's bourse : Jonson and the rival forms of entertainment.