Angels & Ducats: Shakespeare's Money Medals

Every purchase supports the British Museum Deniers and ducats, groats and guilders, crowns and cruzados: this fun, engaging and beautifully illustrated little book explores the role of money and medals in William Shakespeare's world and work Shakespeare made use of coinage as a fertile source of metaphor; a means of giving crucial information on status and character; a plot device and a way of adding local colour in both dramatic verse and comic dialogue This title reveals the meaning behind the metaphors, exploring the significance of money in Shakespeare's life and career Full of intriguing facts and literary quotations that reveal how much people were paid and how much things cost in Shakespeare's world – looking in detail at the theatre, trading and shopping, borrowing and lending, and currency and how it changed