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Title:
"Opening the Sacred Body or the Profaned Host in The Merchant of Venice"
Author:
Gleyzon, François-Xavier.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
English Studies 94, no. 7 (2013): 821–44.
Annotation:

Suggests that Shylock's attempt to open Antonio's Christian body to take the pound of flesh in Merchant of Venice "represents and reproduces a willingness to attack and to profane the Eucharist." English summary, 821.

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Title:
"Catapulting Shakespeare into the Present: The Artistic Vision of Barbara Gaines"
Author:
Buccola, Regina.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Discusses the artistic choices that Barbara Gaines, founder of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, has made when directing Shakespeare and how the company functions as a community.

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Title:
"Governing the Wolf: Soul and Space in The Merchant of Venice"
Author:
Sherman, Donovan.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43, no. 1 (2013): 99–120.
Annotation:

Reads Gratiano's use of metempsychosis to describe Shylock as wolf in Merchant of Venice as evidence of early modern anxiety over the nature of the soul.

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Title:
"The Spatial Rhetoric of Chicago Shakespeare Theater"
Author:
Walker, Jonathan.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Analyzes the ways in which the interior spaces of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Courtyard Theater help build a relationship between the actors and audience.

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Title:
"This One's for the Girls: Millennial Ladies in Josie Rourke's Twelfth Night"
Author:
Tomasian, Alicia.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

In examining Josie Rourke's feminist approach to Twelfth Night (q.v.), analyzes how she reinvents Shakespearean gender swapping to include homosexuality and bisexuality.

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