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Welcome to the REP Insight Resource pages for Serious Money

Serious Money is a satirical play which examines the stock market, and the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE).

Churchill subtitles the play “a city comedy” and introduces it with a scene from Thomas Shadwell’s 1692 play The Volunteers: Or, The Stockjobbers. She has deliberately placed her play in the tradition of satiric city comedies such as Ben Jonson’s Volpone, dating back to the early seventeenth century.

The plot deals with two main themes; the Todd family’s deal-making and Billy Corman’s attempt to take over the Albion company from Duckett.

Much of the play is written in rhyming couplets and contains strong language characteristic of trading floors at the time.