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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

• Masterpiece Theatre |The Merchant of Venice

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/merchant/

  PBS screened a version ofThe Merchant of Venice. The website has everything from essays and interviews to a short extract of the Shylock defense scene:

  keywords: essays, interviews, merchant of venice, mv, shylock, theater

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

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• 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

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

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• 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

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

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Wired for Books: William Shakespeare

  http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/shakespeare/

  Wired for Bookspresents William Shakespeare. Download RealPlayer video productions of some of Shakespeare's plays, as well as listen to Shakespeare's sonnets:

  keywords: andronicus, caesar, julius, merchant of venice, sonnets, taming of the shrew, titus, video

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Individual plays

  valid as of 2005-09-08