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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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice

  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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Lansdowne's Jew of Venice

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=jew_of_venice&PagePosition=1

  The Furness Collection houses the workThe Jew of Venice. A comedy. As it is acted at the theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants.London: Printed for Ber. Lintott, 1701. (Merchant of Venice):

  keywords: comedy, london, jew, merchant, mv, theater, venice

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Marlowe's Jew of Malta

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=jew_of_malta&PagePosition=1

  The famous tragedy of the rich Jew of Malta, as it was playd before the king and queene in his majesties theatre at White-Hall. London : Printed by I.B. for Nicholas Vavasour, 1633. This text is available at theFurness Collection:

  keywords: jew, king, library, london, malta, marlowe, theatre, tragedy

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Marlowe, Christopher

  valid as of 2005-09-13

• 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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice

  valid as of 2005-09-12