Contents
- Preface
- The Text of The Merchant of Venice
- The Merchant of Venice
- A Note on the Text
- Sources and Contexts
- Richard Robinson, trans. • [The Tale of the Three Caskets from the Gesta Romarorum]
- Sir Giovanni Fiorentino • [The Merchant of Venice]
- Anonymous • [Ballad of a Cruel Jew]
- Sir Thomas Elyot • [The True Meaning of Friendship]
- Edwin Sandys • [Duties of Husband and Wife]
- Daniel Price • The Merchant: A Sermon Preached at Paul’s Cross
- Thomas Coryat • [Description of Venice]
- William Camden • [The Case of Dr. Lopez]
- Thomas Calvert • [Causes of the Miseries of the Jews]
- Peter Heylyn • [Judaizing Christians in the 1590s]
- Sir Simonds D’Ewes • [Parlimentary Debate on Usury]
- Edward Nicholas • An Apology for the Honorable Nation of the Jews
- Criticism
- Nicholas Rowe • [Remarks on The Merchant of Venice]
- William Hazlitt • The Merchant of Venice
- Mrs. Anna Jameson • Portia
- Heinrich Heine • [Jessica and Portia]
- Sigmund Freud • The Theme of the Three Caskets
- G. Wilson Knight • [The Music of The Merchant of Venice]
- Barbara K. Lewalski • Biblical Allusion and Allegory in The Merchant of Venice
- Lawrence Danson • [Platonic Doctrine and the Music of Art V]
- Derek Cohen • Shylock and the Idea of the Jew
- Lawrence Lerner • Wilhelm S. and Shylock
- Toby Lelyveld • [Edmund Kean as Shylock]
- James Shapiro • [Circumcision and the "Pound of Flesh"]
- Stephen Orgel • [Shylocks in Shakespeare’s England]
- Charles Edelman • [The Shakespeares as Money-Lenders]
- Walter Cohen • [The Merchant of Venice and Proto-Capitalism]
- Karen Newman • Portia’s Ring: Unruly Women and Structures of Exchange in The Merchant of Venice
- Alan Sinfield • How to Read The Merchant of Venice Without Being Heterosexist
- James O’Rourke • Racism and Homophobia in The Merchant of Venice
- Kim F. Hall • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Colonization and Miscegenation in The Merchant of Venice
- R. W. Desai • "Mislike Me Not for My Complexion": Whose Mislike? Portia’s?, Shakespeare’s, or That of His Age?
- Avraham Oz • The Merchant of Venice in Israel
- Rewritings and Appropriations
- John Cunningham • [Prologue for a Revival of The Merchant of Venice at the Time of the Parliamentary Bill for Naturalizing the Jews]
- Iain Crichton Smith • Shylock
- Alan Sillitoe • Shylock the Writer
- Karl Shapiro • Shylock
- Leonard Nathan • Shylock in New York
- Fiona Pitt-Kethley • Shylock
- Dramatic and Musical Adaptations
- Novels, Short Stories, and Poems
- Radio, Television, and Film
- Selected Bibliography
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