CRITICISM

Bergeron, David M. “Timon of Athens and Morality Drama.” CLA Journal 10, no. 3 (March 1967): 181-8.

Examines the play as a morality drama, demonstrating the structural and thematic similarities between Timon of Athens and the morality drama Everyman.

Bizley, W. H. “Language and Currency in Timon of Athens.” Theoria 44 (1975): 21-42.

Maintains that Shakespeare's analysis of the relationship between money and language in Timon of Athens is of primary importance to the play.

Bulman, James C., Jr. “Shakespeare's Use of the ‘Timon’ Comedy.” Shakespeare Survey 29 (1976): 103-16.

Proposes that a comedy entitled Timon served as a source for Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, and suggests the ways in which it may have influenced Shakespeare.

Fischer, Sandra K. “‘Cut My Heart in Sums’: Shakespeare's Economics in Timon of Athens.” In Money: Lure, Lore, and Literature, edited by John Louis DiGaetani, pp. 187-95. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Contends that the play's structure is affected by the impact of the newly emerging system of mercantilism on society.

Goldstein, Leonard. “Alcibiades' Revolt in Timon of Athens.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 15, no. 3 (1967): 256-78.

Argues that Shakespeare's depiction of the people participating in Alcibiades's revolt in Timon of Athens indicates that the playwright was developing an interest in, and perhaps even sympathy for, the people as a dynamic political force.

Heilman, Robert B. “Timon in Context.” In Shakespeare: The Tragedies, edited by Robert B. Heilman, pp. 218-31. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984.

Explores the problem of self-knowledge as portrayed in Timon of Athens.

O'Dair, Sharon. “Aping Aristocrats: Timon of Athens and the Anticapitalism of Intellectuals.” In Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars, pp. 43-66. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Reviews relevant criticism on the play's treatment of economic and social relations, and objects to criticism that too readily accepts Shakespeare's play as a criticism of money and money-based societies.

Prendergast, Teresa Michaela. “‘Unmanly Melancholy’: Lack, Fetishism, and Abuse in Timon of Athens.” Criticism 42, no. 2 (spring 2000): 207-27.

Examines the lack of female characters and the wealth of slanderous references to women in Timon of Athens.