A Guide to William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice

about

This book offers a pedagogical analysis of Shakespeare's complex and controversial play in its Elizabethan and modern contexts.

Description 

The author discusses Shakespeare's life, education, and literary career; the genre of romantic comedy; the characters of the play; the themes and tropes of otherness, loss and gain, xenophobia, flesh and blood, caskets and cultural codes, love and money,' The quality of mercy' and' Parchment bonds.'

author

Boika Sokolova's books include Shakespeare's Romances as Interrogative Texts (Edwin Mellen, 1992), Painting Shakespeare Red (University of Delaware Press, 2001) and editions of collections of essays on Shakespeare's reception in Europe.