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TY  - CHAP
T2  - Marotti, Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions
SP  - 107-35
ID  - bbbc2083
T1  - "Early Mimics: Shylock, Machiavelli, and the Commodification of Nationhood"
AU  - Oz, Avraham
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013
LA  - English
AB  - Examines functions of mimicry for Shylock and their role in Machiavellian nation-building in Merchant of Venice. Argues that "the issue of alien infiltrators into the emerging national unity in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England, as reflected in the theater of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, is inseparable from the issue of . . . the commodification of nationhood."
ER  -