Money lessons from Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens still ring true today

Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens is a riches to rags story. Its wealthy title character squanders his money on opportunistic ‘friends’ and grows jaded with the world. This play holds lessons for the modern world, writes Professor Emerita Laurette Dube on everythingzoomer.com. Shakespeare shows us that money must not be stripped of a search for a meaningful life in community with others, she writes. Money without meaning conjures a mere dream of friendship, a fantasy world that must finally give way to a reality of misery and contempt.