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Selected Studies of Merchant of Venice:
Andrews, Mark Edwin. Law Versus Equity in The Merchant Of Venice; A Legalization of Act IV, Scene I. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1965.
Barnet, Sylvan. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Merchant of Venice: a Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970.
Bloom, Allan David. “On Christian and Jew: The Merchant of Venice.” In Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Shylock. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991.
Bullough, Geoffrey. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. Vol. 1. London: Routledge and Paul; New York: Columbia University Press, 1957-75.
Bulman, James C. The Merchant of Venice. Manchester, U.K.; New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press; New York: Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Clark, Cumberland. A Study of the Merchant of Venice. London: Printed by Wass Pritchard & Co., 1927.
Conolly, L. W. “The Merchant of Venice and the Jew Bill of 1753.” Shakespeare Quarterly 25 (1974): 125-127.
Danson, Lawrence. The Harmonies of The Merchant Of Venice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
Dessen, Alan. “The Elizabethan Stage Jew.” Modern Language Quarterly 35 (1974).
Elze, Karl. “The Merchant of Venice.” In Essays on Shakespeare. Dora L. Schmitz, trans. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874.
Grebanier, Bernard D. N. The Truth about Shylock. New York: Random House, 1962.
Gross, John J. Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Hansen, Matthew Carl. Journeys of Shakespearience: Fathers and Daughters in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 Productions of The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, and The Tempest. Thesis: Washington and Lee University, 1994.
Ledebur, Ruth von. “Reading Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice with German Students.” In Reading plays: Interpretation and Reception. Hanna Scolnicov & Peter Holland, eds. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Lelyveld, Toby Bookholtz. Shylock on the Stage. Cleveland, Ohio: Press of Western Reserve University, 1960.
Lewisohn, Ludwig. The Last Days of Shylock. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1931.
Perret, Marion D. “Shakespeare’s Jew: Preconception and Performance.” Shakespeare Studies 20 (1987): 261-268.
Popkin, Richard. “A Jewish Merchant of Venice.” Shakespeare Quarterly 40.3 (Fall 1989): 329-331.
Shapiro, James S. Shakespeare and the Jews. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
Sinsheimer, Hermann. Shylock, the History of a Character. New York: B. Blom, 1947, 1963.
Spencer, Christopher. The Genesis of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1988.
Stonex, A. B. “Money Lending and Money Lenders in England during the 16th &17th Centuries.” In Schelling Anniversary Papers / by His Former Students. New York: The Century Co., 1923.
Stratton, C. “Act Four of The Merchant of Venice on the Stage.” In Schelling Anniversary Papers by His Former Students. New York: The Century Co., 1923.
Yaffe, Martin D. Shylock and the Jewish Question. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.