Merchant of Venice

by Wood N

Shylock and Shakespeare's Venetians have provoked perennial debate about issues of race and gender. Is Shylock presented as a stage villain or a potent reminder of Gentile prejudice! What social order is triumphant in Belmont at the conclusion to the action'? Can (or should) modern audiences, in any case, bear Elizabethan assumptions in mind when now considering the play'?

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First published March 1, 1996