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• 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

• Merchant of Venice: Quarto 2

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=merchant_q2&PagePosition=1

  The excellent history of the merchant of Venice : with the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh : and the obtaining of Portia, by the choyse of three caskets .London: Printed by J. Roberts, 1600 [i.e. 1619]. (Merchant of Venice):

  keywords: history, london, merchant, mv, quarto, venice

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  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

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

  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

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

  valid as of 2005-09-12