Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202).
Introduction : Date and source ; Some attitudes and assumptions behind the play ; Experiencing the play ; The afterlife of The merchant of Venice ; Recent critical and stage interpretations / by Charles Edelman -- Note on the text -- List of characters -- The play -- Supplementary note -- Textual analysis -- Appendix: Shakespeare's use of the Bible in The Merchant of Venice.
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In a substantial new section, Charles Edelman focuses on the play's sexual politics and recent scholarship on the position of Jews in Shakespeare's time. He surveys the international scope of 'The Merchant' in the 1980s and 1990s and different ways of tackling the troubling figure of Shylock.