- 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.