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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 31
IS  - no. 3
T2  - Shofar
SP  - 115-30
ID  - bbbc164
T1  - "The Triumph of the Golden Fleece: Women, Money, Religion, and Power in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice"
AU  - Russin, Robin
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
KW  - lust
KW  - avarice
KW  - jealously
KW  - deceit
KW  - cruelty
KW  - religion
KW  - morality
KW  - Portia
KW  - Jessica
LA  - English
AB  - Argues that in Merchant of Venice "Shakespeare explores darker currents of lust, avarice, retribution, jealousy, sexual deceit, cruelty, religious conflict, and financial, moral, and emotional bankruptcy" through Portia and Jessica. Explains that "Portia, with her limitless wealth, is revealed as the play's controlling character [whose] actions and attitudes are ironically rejected by those of Jessica, who embodies the play's moral perplexity." English summary, 115.
ER  -