- A.D. Moody, Shakespeare: “The Merchant of Venice“ (London: Edward Arnold Ltd., 1964), p.61.
- See, e.g., Lawrence Danson, The Harmonies of “The Merchant of Venice” (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977); Herbert Bronstein, “Shakespeare, The Jews and The Merchant of Venice,” 20 Shakespeare Quarterly 10 (1969); Anthony Hecht, “The Merchant of Venice. A Venture in Hermeneutics,”Obligati: Essays in Criticism (New York: Atheneum, 1986), pp. 140–229; Edgar Elmer Stoll, Shylock (reprinted in the Signet Classic Merchant of Venice, 1965), pp. 157–172.
- See, e.g., Moody, supra note 1; H.B. Charleton, Shakespearean Comedy (New York: McMillan, 1938), pp. 123–160; J.M. Murry, Shakespeare's Method: “The Merchant of Venice” (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1936), pp. 153–173; Judith Koffler, “Terror and Mutilation in the Golden Age,” 5 Human Rights Quarterly 116 (1983).
- See, e.g., Rudolf von Jhering, Der Kampf um's Recht (Vienna, 1886), translated in pertinent part in H.H. Furness, ed., The Merchant of Venice: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (New York: Dover, 1964). Terry Eagleton, William Shakespeare (New York: Blackwell, 1986), pp. 36–37; Richard Weisberg, Poethics, And other Strategies of Law and Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992), pp. 99–100.
- Hecht, supra note 2 at 186–187.
- See, e.g., George W. Keeton, Shakespeare's Legal and Political Background (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1967), pp. 10–21.
- For a recapitulation of legal descriptions of the bond, see O. Hood Phillips, Shakespeare and the Lawyers (London: Methuen, 1972), pp. 102–116; on the automatic nature of the forfeiture, see Keeton, supra note 6 at 136.
- See Weisberg, Poethics, supra note 4 at 95.
- Id.
- M.E. Andrews, Law Versus Equity in “The Merchant of Venice” (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1965).
- Richard Posner, Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 97.
- Gertrude Himmelfarb, “Victorian Values/Jewish Values,” 23 Commentary 28–29 (1990).
- Accord John Noonan, Bribes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), pp. 323–25.
- J William Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (New York: Dutton, 1969), p. 322.
- Weisberg, Poethics, supra note 4 at 100.
- Id.
- See also the comment in Act Four of Timon of Athens: “Crack the lawyer's voice, that he may never more false title plead, Nor sound his quillets shrilly.”
- Peter J. Alscher, “The Merchant of Venice and the Problem of Antonio: Staging a Radical Resolution of the Trial Scene,” 5 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 1 (1993).
- John Paul Stevens, “The Shakespeare Canon of Statutory Construction,” 140 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1373, 1386 (1992).
- Weisberg, Poethics, supra note 4 at 93–104.
- Posner, Law and Literature, supra note 11 at 33.
- W. Nicholas Knight, Shakespeare's Hidden Life: Shakespeare at the Law: 1585–1595 (New York: Mason & Lipscomb, 1973), pp. 178–190, 280–86.
- J.K. Emery, “Preface” to Andrews, Law Versus Equity in “The Merchant of Venice,” supra note 10 at ix.
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