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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• Kermode, L. E., (2025), "After Shylock: The "Judaiser" in England", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Kermode, Lloyd Edward. "After Shylock: The "Judaiser" in England." Renaissance and Reformation 32 (4): 2010. 5-26. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v32i4.11587. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.