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TY  - CHAP
T2  - Sierra, New Readings of The Merchant of Venice
SP  - 85-107
ID  - bbbc146
T1  - "'I make it breed as fast': Paternal and Financial Anxiety in The Merchant of Venice"
AU  - Sierra, Horacio
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013
KW  - Shylock
KW  - cruelty
KW  - cuckold
KW  - usury
KW  - Jessica
KW  - paternity
KW  - reproduction
LA  - English
AB  - Reads Shylock's cruelty in Merchant of Venice in terms of cuckoldry, arguing that "we can understand Shylock's desire to exact his bond as a hyperbolic, psychosexual manifestation wherein he paradoxically battles and embodies anti-usury polemics." Finds that he "displaces the unease he feels about Jessica's paternity and the Venetian community's hypocritical denigration of his business by conflating financial regeneration and biological reproduction."
ER  -