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The Merchant of Venice

Texts and Contexts

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. William Shakespeare
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Editors:
  1. M. Lindsay Kaplan

    1. Georgetown University, USA

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Part of the book series: The Bedford Shakespeare Series (BESS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • William Shakespeare, M. Lindsay Kaplan
      Pages 1-21

  3. William Shakespeare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. The Merchant of Venice

      • William Shakespeare, M. Lindsay Kaplan
      Pages 25-120

  4. Cultural Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Venice

      • William Shakespeare, M. Lindsay Kaplan
      Pages 123-186

    3. Finance

      • William Shakespeare, M. Lindsay Kaplan
      Pages 187-240

    4. Religion

      • William Shakespeare, M. Lindsay Kaplan
      Pages 241-310

    5. Love and Gender

      • William Shakespeare, M. Lindsay Kaplan
      Pages 311-351

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 353-377
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About this book

This edition of Shakespeare s The Merchant of Venice reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare s play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts include maps, woodcuts, sermons, statutes, early modern documents reflecting Christian attitudes toward Jews and Jewish reactions to these attitudes, excerpts from the bible on money lending as well as contemporary discourses on usury and commerce, excerpts from the first account of Jewish life written in the vernacular by a Jew for a Christian audience, anti-Catholic tracts, travel accounts, diplomatic reports, scenes from a morality play about the corrupting effects of money, royal proclamations concerning the treatment of aliens, conduct literature, and contemporary treatises on the role of women.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Georgetown University, USA

    M. Lindsay Kaplan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Merchant of Venice

  • Book Subtitle: Texts and Contexts

  • Authors: William Shakespeare

  • Editors: M. Lindsay Kaplan

  • Series Title: The Bedford Shakespeare Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07784-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-63494-1Published: 17 May 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-07784-4Published: 27 September 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2945-6231

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-624X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 377

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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