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TY  - CHAP
T2  - Nadon, Enlightenment and Secularism: Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
SP  - 29-40
ID  - bbbc678
T1  - "The Dawn of Secularism in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice"
AU  - Major, Rafael
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013
KW  - secularism
KW  - law
KW  - religion
KW  - prejudice
LA  - English
AB  - Suggests that Shakespeare has a negative view of secularism by noting how, in Merchant of Venice, secular laws, originally meant to lessen religious tension, prove to be inadequate for resolving conflicts fueled by latent religious prejudice.
ER  -