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for them by their birth to people being able to negotiate and hence change their place in society. See Sir Henry Sumner Maine, Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modem Ideas 1861; rpt. Buffalo: William S. Hein, 1983, p. 174. One can see the "shock of the new" with regard to contracts at several points in English Renaissance drama, most notably in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, where a contract appears as something mysterious, magical, and downright diabolical. I develop this point at length in "The Contract from Hell: Corruption in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus," Private and Public Corruption, William C. Hef fernan and John Kleinig, eds. Lanham, Md.: Rowman Littlefield, tiffany outlet 2004, especially pp. 8588. We think contemporary audiences must have been struck by the fact that Faustus makes a contract with the devil, but in some respects they may have been more in awe of the fact that the doctor makes a contract with the devil. After all, sixteenthcen tury audiences were familiar with the devil, but a contract was something new to them, and represented a revolutionary force in their day, the power of market exchange to undermine the medieval world. As Jonson does in Bartholomew Fair, tiffany bracelets Marlowe played up his use of legal language on the stage, mesmerizing his audience with what for them was the new hocuspocus and mumbojumbo of contractual relations. Doctor Faustus is a prime example of the glories and dangers of moving from status to contract. He refuses to accept the status in society tiffany rings into which he was born, and instead contracts with a powerful party to improve his condition and rise in the world. But his tiffany necklaces new contractual tiffany cuff link freedom turns out to be the cause of his damnation.While Marlowe exploits the tragic possibilities created by the new power of contract in the Renaissance, Jonson develops the comic possibilities in his induction to Bartholomew Fair. On the importance of the issue of contract in Jonson's day, see Wayne, "Drama and Society," pp. 11820 tiffany pendants and the detailed discussion in Wilson, Theaters of Intention, pp. 68113. As Wayne and Wilson show, many of the fundamental legal issues regarding the status of contracts were being adjudicated in the English courts during Jonson's lifetime. Faustus seeks to rise above his fellow human beings by the power of contract; Jonson as author seeks to effect a reconciliation with his audience by forming a contractual relationship with them.I80por importance Gf this contract in the contex