This seems to flirt archly with marxist ideas. He *claims* the book examines "a form for reflecting a social background without obvious reference to it".
There is only one reference to Marx. In the chapter on Gay's "Beggar's Opera" (inspiration for Brecht's "Threepenny Opera"), he writes:
"Every reference to money in the Opera carries a satire on the normal attitude to it no less complete than those of Timon of Athens which Marx analysed with so much pleasure."
Marx would never have posited a "normal" attitude to money.
But the purpose of my post is to ask:
does anyone have a reference to (date, not just volume) or better an extract from, Marx on Timon of Athens?
Chris Burford
London