...Athens (l607), a passage in which Timon ascribes to "Yellow, glittering, precious gold" the power to "make / Black white, foul fair, wrong right / Base noble, old young, coward valiant" (4.3. 26-30). I0 To Timon, as to Marx, money has the power to alter, even invert, reality. Its magic...

...itself; as it is said by the inimitable Shakespear: Gold! yellow, glittering, precious gold! Gold! that will make black, white; foul, fair; wrong, right; Base, noble; old, young; cowards, valiant!93 But when the gifts of nature are join'd with those of fortune, how strong is the...

...playing Timon. OLIVIER: Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold? No, gods, I am no idle votarist: you roots, you clear heavens! Thus much of this will make...wrong right; base noble; old young; coward valiant . . . Why, this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides; Pluck stout men's pillows from...