Abstract
In Elizabethan England it was common to blame the country's economic problems on some hated Other, in most cases the Jews who came to represent the stereotypical usurer. This paper investigates how two plays — William Haughton's Englishmen For My Money (1598) and John Marston's Jack Drum's Entertainment — comment on this socio-economic situation. After establishing the primacy of the usurer figure in Haughton's play, the paper will attempt to show how Marston manipulates earlier iconographic and dramatic achievements to foreground the fear of usury in England.
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