The merchant of Venice : new critical essays / edited by John W. Mahon and Ellen Macleod Mahon

Fortunes of The Merchant of Venice From 1596 to 2001 / John W. Mahon -- Shakespeare's Merchant and Marlowe's Other Play / Murray J. Levith -- Jewish Daughters: The Question of Philo-Semitism in Elizabethan Drama / Joan Ozark Holmer -- Jessica / John Drakakis -- Textual Deviancy in The Merchant of Venice / John F. Andrews -- Portia and the Ovidian Grotesque / John W. Velz -- Does Source Criticism Illuminate the Problems of Interpreting The Merchant as a Soured Comedy? / John K. Hale -- Shylock is Content: A Study in Salvation / Hugh Short -- Isolation to Communion: A Reading of The Merchant of Venice / Maryellen Keefe -- Less Into the Greater: Emblem, Analogue, and Deification in The Merchant of Venice / John Cunningham and Stephen Slimp -- "Nerissa Teaches Me What to Believe": Portia's Wifely Empowerment in The Merchant of Venice / Corinne S. Abate -- "Mislike Me Not for My Complexion": Whose Mislike? Portia's? Shakespeare's? Or That of his Age? / R.W. Desai -- Merchant of Venice and the Politics of Commerce / Karoline Szatek -- Names in The Merchant of Venice / Grace Tiffany -- Singing Chords: Performing Shylock and Other Characters in The Merchant of Venice / Jay L. Halio -- Making The Merchant of Venice Palatable for U.S. Audiences / Gayle Gaskill -- Shylock in Performance / John O'Connor -- Portia Performs: Playing the Role in the Twentieth-Century English Theater / Penny Gay