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 The most substantial discussion of economic issues in the play is that of Bonahue, who argues that it seeks “to reconcile disparities between the links of london alienating effects of the new commerce and inherited notions of communal organization and obligation” (”Social Control,” 77). That is, in staging “the possibility of some crisis at each level, and then [showing] that crisis averted” (Links of London Necklaces), the play’s “conflicted purpose … is to celebrate commercial success, while containing the consequent problems” (90). Containment of reactions to injustice is indeed an important element in the play, but the transparency of the containment strategies, in my view, openly invites interrogation, and the play, instead of reconciling conflicting responses, allows them to co-exist in competition with each other. Also important is Theodore B. Leinwand’s argument (Theatre, 23-31) that critics who see the celebration of mercantilism in the play “neglect the extent to which [it] explores the embarrassment with which its financiers encumber themselves” (25). In particular, Leinwand describes Gresham’s “vulnerability and his suspicion that he is about to be discovered and . . . embarrassed,” his “acute self-consciousness” and “defensiveness” (links of london R Charm). Nor is Gresham alone for Leinwand, since “an all-pervasive money economy exerted its differential dues from the richer, middling, and poorer sorts”