Shylock, the Roman: Honor and Irony in The Merchant of Venice

"Shylock, the Roman: Honor and Irony in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice" proposes an entirely unexpected new meaning for one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays. In drilling deeply into a single play, it illuminates other Shakespeare plays and, more broadly, provides insight into the logic of Shakespeare’s artistry and point of view as a dramatist.
Shylock, the Roman takes an approach to The Merchant of Venice that has no precedent: it proposes that the Renaissance ethos of ancient Roman ...