- Marvin Spevak, ed., The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973), pp. 422–423.
- Act, scene and line numbers cited in the text refer to M.M. Mahood's edition of The Merchant of Venice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). This edition also contains a valuable introduction by the editor (pp. 1–53).
- Shirley Nelson Garner, “Shylock: His stones, his daughter, and his ducats,” 5 The Upstart Crow 40 (1984). See also E.E. Krapf, “Shylock and Antonio: A Psychoanalytic Study on Shakespeare and Anti-semitism,” 42 The Psychoanalytic Review 119 (1955); and E. Pearlman, “Shakespeare, Freud, and the Two Usuries, or, Money's a Meddler,” 2 ELR 224 (1972).
- Shylock says “The Duke shall grant me justice” in an earlier scene (III,iii,8) but otherwise does not use the word. Virtually all talk of justice comes from other characters.
- M.M. Mahood correctly points out that Shakespeare was after “not legal theory but dramatic effect. A judgment that combined a meticulous attention to the letter of the law and with a not less meticulous concern for the principle of equity will unite all parts of the house in a common satisfaction.” supra note 2 at 18.
- Garner, supra note 3 at 48, points out that “psychoanalytic critics have always seen Shylock's bond as threatening castration” and directs attention to Pearlman, supra note 3 at 226–227.
- Accord Richard Weisberg, “Then You Shall Be His Surety,” in Poethics, And Other Strategies of Law and Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992), p. 102.
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