The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice Criticism

• The Merchant of Venice (Vol. 53)
  • Introduction
  • Responses, Sources, Contexts
  • Criticism: Race
    • Shakespeare's Jew: Preconception and Performance
    • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Colonization and Miscegenation in The Merchant of Venice
    • Shylock and the Struggle for Closure
    • ‘Which is the merchant here? and which the Jew?’: Riddles of Identity
    • ‘Now by My Hood, a Gentle and No Jew’: Jessica, The Merchant of Venice, and the Discourse of Early Modern English Identity
    • Prejudice and Law in The Merchant of Venice
  • Criticism: Allegory
    • Prodigal Sons and Daughters: Transgression and Forgiveness in The Merchant of Venice
    • Allegorical Commentary in The Merchant of Venice
  • Disappointment in The Merchant of Venice
  • Criticism: Elizabethan Culture And Values
  • Further Reading
• The Merchant of Venice (Vol. 66)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Standards of Value in The Merchant of Venice
    • The New Medea: On Portia's Comic Triumph in The Merchant of Venice
    • Which Is the Merchant Here? And Which the Jew?: The Venice of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Who Is Shylock?
    • ‘A Foolish Consistency’: Antonio and Alienation in The Merchant of Venice.
    • The Mistreatment of Shakespeare's Shylock
    • Which Is the Jew that Shakespeare Knew?: Shylock on the Elizabethan Stage
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • The Flapper of Venice
    • Richard Olivier Directs The Merchant of Venice
    • A Stage Where Every Man Must Play a Part?
    • Review of The Merchant of Venice
  • Criticism: Themes
    • The Merchant of Venice: The Homosexual as Anti-Semite in Nascent Capitalism
    • Reading the Body in The Merchant of Venice
    • Marginalized Voices in The Merchant of Venice
    • Contract in The Merchant of Venice.
    • The Rhetoric of Exclusion: Jew, Moor, and the Boundaries of Discourse in The Merchant of Venice
    • Jessica's Belmont Blues: Music and Merriment in The Merchant of Venice
    • Antonio's Legalistic Cruelty: Interdisciplinarity and The Merchant of Venice.
  • Further Reading
• The Merchant of Venice (Vol. 77)
  • Introduction
  • The Merchant of Venice and the Possibilities of Historical Criticism
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Gaping Pig—and Worse: Shylock's Christian Ducats
    • Shylock and the Rise of the Household Pet: Thinking Social Exclusion in The Merchant of Venice
    • Deconstructing the Christian Merchant: Antonio and The Merchant of Venice
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • From Serban, the Shylock of Yesteryear, A Go-To Guy
    • Merciless Qualities
    • Shakespeare Performances in England, 1998
    • Clever Merchandising
    • The Arguable Comedy in Merchant of Venice
    • Shakespeare Performances in England, 1999
    • Shylock and Portia Speak to All Eras
    • Won Over
  • Criticism: Themes
    • A Second Daniel: The Jew and the ‘True Jew’ in The Merchant of Venice
    • The Bankruptcy of Homoerotic Amity in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
    • Genetics and ‘Race’ in The Merchant of Venice
  • Further Reading
• The Merchant of Venice (Vol. 87)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Introduction to The Merchant of Venice
    • Introduction to The Merchant of Venice
    • The Merchant of Venice and Japanese Culture
    • Introduction to The Merchant of Venice
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Portia and The Merchant of Venice: The Gentle Bond
    • Shylock and the ‘Conditioned Imagination’: A Reinterpretation
    • Bassanio's Golden Fleece
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of Silent Shakespeare: Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On. … 1899-1911
    • Review of The Merchant of Venice
    • In Shylock vs. Antonio, a Ray of Hope for a Pitiable Soul
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Through a Looking Glass, Darkly: Judging Hazards in The Merchant of Venice
    • Feudal and Bourgeois Concepts of Value in The Merchant of Venice
    • The Old Testament Presence in The Merchant of Venice
    • Does Source Criticism Illuminate the Problems of Interpreting The Merchant as a Soured Comedy?
  • Further Reading
• The Pound of Flesh
  • Introduction
  • I. Elizabethan ideas about circumcision
  • II. Romans and the theological meanings of circumcision
  • II Circumcision in the sources of The Merchant
  • III. The circumcision of the heart
  • IV. Uncircumcision
• The Merchant of Venice (Vol. 40)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • The Merchant of Venice, or the Importance of Being Earnest
    • Blind Gods: Fortune, Justice, and Cupid in The Merchant of Venice
    • The Ideology of The Merchant of Venice
  • Gender Identity, Roles, And Relations
    • Giving and Taking in The Merchant of Venice
    • The Cuckoo's Note: Male Friendship and Cuckoldry in The Merchant of Venice
    • Doubling Cross-Gender Disguise: The Merchant of Venice
  • SHAKESPEARE'S PORTRAYAL OF SHYLOCK & THE ISSUE OF ANTI-SEMITISM
    • Shylock in the City of God
    • The Jew and Shylock
    • The Pound of Flesh
    • Shakespeare's Portrayal Of Shylock & The Issue Of Anti-Semitism
  • ECONOMICS & EXCHANGE
    • 'Thrift is Blessing': Exchange and Explanation in The Merchant of Venice
    • Portia's Ring: Unruly Women and Structures of Exchange in The Merchant of Venice
  • Further Reading
• How to Read The Merchant of Venice Without Being Heterosexist
  • Introduction
  • I Antonio vs. Portia
  • Il Property and sodomy
  • III Friendly relations
  • IV Subcultures and Shakespeare
• Disembodied Letters and The Merchant of Venice
  • Introduction
  • I
  • II
  • III
• Shylock: The Infamous Secret Jew
  • Introduction
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • Bibliography