"'I make it breed as fast': Paternal and Financial Anxiety in The Merchant of Venice"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc146/
Author:
	Sierra, Horacio.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Sierra, New Readings of The Merchant of Venice, 85–107.
:
	Sierra, New Readings of The Merchant of Venice
Annotation:
	Reads Shylock's cruelty in Merchant of Venice in terms of cuckoldry, arguing that "we can understand Shylock's desire to exact his bond as a hyperbolic, psychosexual manifestation wherein he paradoxically battles and embodies anti-usury polemics." Finds that he "displaces the unease he feels about Jessica's paternity and the Venetian community's hypocritical denigration of his business by conflating financial regeneration and biological reproduction."
Language:
	English
Keywords:
	Shylock; cruelty; cuckold; usury; Jessica; paternity; reproduction
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Merchant of Venice
WSB Update:
	Summer 2013
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc146