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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