The profitable imagination: poesy, coinage, and the hermeneutic circles of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus -- The Jewish economies of Renaissance reading: putting Shylock to good use in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- Good credit and the maintenance of desire in Heywood's Apology for actors and If you know not me, you know nobody, part II -- Imaginative alchemy and the face of the sovereign: locating value in Dekker's Old Fortunatus -- Banking and the allure of belief: bad credit in Jonson's Volpone