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• A Second Daniel: The Jew and the "True Jew" inThe Merchant of Venice

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/luxoshak.html

  Luxon, Thomas H. "A Second Daniel: The Jew and the "True Jew" inThe Merchant of Venice."Early Modern Literary Studies4.3 (January 1999): 3.1-37. Luxon explores the debate as to whether Shakespeare'sThe Merchant of Veniceis in fact an anti-semitic play:

  keywords: anti-semitic, debate, jew, MV, merchant of venice, religion, semitic

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Granville'sJew of Venice(1701): A Close Reading of Shakespeare'sMerchant

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/GRANVILL%20JEW_OF_V.txt

  Schneider, Ben Ross. "Granville'sJew of Venice(1701): A Close Reading of Shakespeare'sMerchant." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies, 1992. Schneider examines the differences between Shakespeare'sThe Merchant of Veniceand Granville's early 18th-century adaptation of it,The Jew of Venice, and disputes the argument that Granville's text is Shakespeare's minus the capitalism:

  keywords: adaptation, capitalism, granville, jew, MV, merchant, source

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Shylock Is Us

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/MORAL%20SHAKES-2.txt

  Schneider, Ben Ross. "Shylock Is Us." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. A reductionist view ofThe Merchant of Venicein which racial and sexual interpretations have been put aside in an attempt to redeem the reputations of the main Christian characters:

  keywords: antonio, bassanio, christians, MV, merchant of venice, portia, shylock

  valid as of 2005-09-08