Links Database: The Merchant of Venice
- Contarini's Commonwealth of Venice
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=contarini&PagePosition=1
- Contarini, Gasparo, 1483-1542.The commonwealth and gouernment of Venice. London : Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Edmund Mattes, 1599. View images of this original text at theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: edmund, london, commonwealth, contareno
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Mosse's Arraignment of Usury
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=mosse&PagePosition=1
- Mosse, Miles, fl. 1580-1614.The arraignment and conuiction of vsurie : that is, the iniquitie and vnlawfulnes of vsurie, displayed in sixe sermons, preached at Saint Edmunds Burie in Suffolke, vpon Prouerb. 28.8 .London : Printed by the widdow Orwin, for Iohn Porter, 1595. View images of this original text at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: london
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Orator
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=orator_selections&PagePosition=1
- Le Sylvain, ca. 1535-ca. 1585. "Of a Jew, who would for his debt haue a pound of the flesh of a Christian" FromIn The orator : handling a hundred seuerall discourses, in forme of eclamations : some of the arguments being drawne from Titus Liuius and other ancient writers, the rest of the authors owne inuention : part of which are of matters happened in our age .London : Printed by Adam Islip, 1596. View images of this original text at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: london, merchant, mv, venice, source
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism: The Question of Shylock
- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/
- Stirling, Grant. "Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism: The Question of Shylock." February 1997. An introductory site that explores anti-semitism in the Elizabethan era and offers some images of Shylock performed in different periods:
- keywords: shylock, merchant, mv, venice, anti-semetism, elizabethan, jew
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Smith's Examination of Usury
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=smith_usury&PagePosition=1
- Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.The examination of usury. A sermon preached in the city of London, by the learned and reverend divine Henry Smith. Boston? Re-printed and sold by the booksellers, 1751. View images of this text at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: christianity, london, religion, ursury
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks
- http://www.shakespearemag.com/spring97/dakin.asp
- Dakin, Mary Ellen. "Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks."Shakespeare Magazine.(Spring 1997). This site focuses on teachingThe Merchant of Venice, complete with all of its political difficulties, to high school students:
- keywords: merchant of venice, mv, scenes, teaching
- valid as of 2005-09-12