About This Volume -- Leverage, Risk, and Fragility in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- Biography of William Shakespeare -- Critical Contexts -- The Merchant of Venice and "The Merchant of Emden": Ballads, Theatergrams, and Deloney -- Recent Criticism of The Merchant of Venice: An Overview -- The Merchant of Venice: How to Make Sense When a Play Contains Too Many Causes and Too Many Meanings -- Odd Patterns of Self-Addressed Speeches in The Merchant of Venice: An Empirical Investigation -- Critical Readings -- Contexts of Shylock's Contentment -- "The first boy for a thousand ducats": Commonwealth and the Antisocial Family in The Merchant of Venice -- Shylock's Use of Repetition in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- "Hath not a Jew eyes?" on Film and Stage -- Opening Drawings in Some Early Illustrated Editions of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- Illustrations of the "Trial Scene" from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- Additional Illustrations of the "Trial Scene" from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- The 1980 Televised BBC Production of The Merchant of Venice: A Survey of Reviews -- The 2004 Film of The Merchant of Venice: A Survey of Reviews -- The 2015 "Shakespeare's Globe" Production of The Merchant of Venice: A Survey of Reviews -- Resources -- Chronology of William Shakespeare's Life -- Works by William Shakespeare -- Bibliography -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Index.
About This Volume -- Leverage, Risk, and Fragility in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- Biography of William Shakespeare -- Critical Contexts -- The Merchant of Venice and "The Merchant of Emden": Ballads, Theatergrams, and Deloney -- Recent Criticism of The Merchant of Venice: An Overview -- The Merchant of Venice: How to Make Sense When a Play Contains Too Many Causes and Too Many Meanings -- Odd Patterns of Self-Addressed Speeches in The Merchant of Venice: An Empirical Investigation -- Critical Readings -- Contexts of Shylock's Contentment -- "The first boy for a thousand ducats": Commonwealth and the Antisocial Family in The Merchant of Venice -- Shylock's Use of Repetition in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- "Hath not a Jew eyes?" on Film and Stage -- Opening Drawings in Some Early Illustrated Editions of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- Illustrations of the "Trial Scene" from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- Additional Illustrations of the "Trial Scene" from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- The 1980 Televised BBC Production of The Merchant of Venice: A Survey of Reviews -- The 2004 Film of The Merchant of Venice: A Survey of Reviews -- The 2015 "Shakespeare's Globe" Production of The Merchant of Venice: A Survey of Reviews -- Resources -- Chronology of William Shakespeare's Life -- Works by William Shakespeare -- Bibliography -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Index.
