1. Norman Nathan, “Is Shylock Philip Henslowe?” Notes and Queries 193 (1948): 163–5; quotation at 163.
2. Shakespeare in Love (screenplay), by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (New York: Miramax Books/Hyperion, 1999), 1 ff. For a review that notices the role of such “money men” in the film, and in the film’s presentist allegory of the studio system,
3. see Kenneth S. Rothwell, “Shakespeare in Love,” Cineaste 2–3 (March 1999): 79–80.
4. On “the New Economic Criticism,” see the editors’ introduction to The New Economic Criticism: Studies in the Intersection of Literature and Economics, ed. Martha Woodmansee and Mark Osteen (New York: Routledge, 1999).
5. Two earlier studies of economics and literature have special resonance for my argument here: see Kurt Heinzelman, The Economics of the Imagination (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980);