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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 39
IS  - 8
T2  - Textual Practice
SP  - 1347-63
ID  - bbbo857
T1  - "Do Shakespeare's Characters Mean What They Say?" 
AU  - Knapp, Jeffrey
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Suggests that Shakespeare's characters in Merchant of Venice speak in "proxy forms of expression: that allow them to say indirectly what they would otherwise feel powerless to say"; shows that these proxy languages "alienate characters from themselves" and can be unsuccessful, as with Antonio expressing his love for Bassanio, or can be successful, as with Portia's disguise as Balthazar. English summary, 1347.
ER  -