Suggestions of Further Reading

The following list of works is by no means a complete list of references for anti-semitism and The Merchant of Venice. Rather, it is a short compilation of some works of literary criticism that I have consulted in the course of drafting these pages. A brief search of any university library system--such as the Weldon Library of the University of Western Ontario or the Scott Library of York University--under the keywords of Shylock, Merchant, Jew, and/or anti-semitism, should produce a more comprehensive listing of available resources.

A Brief List of References

Bloom, Harold. Ed. Shylock. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1991

Charlton, H. B. Shakespeare's Jew. Manchester: The Manchester University Press, 1934 ; (Folcroft, Pa. : Folcroft Press, 1973.)

Gross, John. Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend. London: Chatto & Windus, 1992.

Lelyveld, Toby. Shylock on the Stage. London: Routledge, 1961.

Shapiro, James. Shakespeare and the Jews. New York: Columbia UP, 1996.

Shatzmiller, Joseph. Shylock Reconsidered: Jews, Moneylending, and Medieval Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Sinsheimer, Hermann. Shylock: The History of a Character. New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1947.

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