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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 80
IS  - no. 4
T2  - ELH
SP  - 946-80
ID  - bbbc1817
T1  - "The Kindest Cut: Circumcision and Queer Kinship in The Merchant of Venice"
AU  - Greenstadt, Amy
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Explores the meanings of of "kind" and "kindness" in Merchant of Venice. Argues that the relationships in the play can be understood in context of Jewish rites of circumcision, "a form of bonding based on mutual sacrifice." Also discusses the similarities between circumcision and defloration, submitting that the women in the play also work into these bonds of "queer kinship."
ER  -