"Who Drew the Jew That Shakespeare Knew?: Misericords and Medieval Jews in The Merchant of Venice"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc1794/
Author:
	Kaplan, M. Lindsay.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Survey 66 (2013): 298–315.
Annotation:
	Speculates on "the influence of persisting medieval representations of Jews in early modern English culture" in Merchant of Venice. Argues that the Stratford misericord carving, "like the play, represents an archaic, antagonistic view of Jews that had gradually receded in other contemporary discourses."
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Merchant of Venice
WSB Update:
	Winter 2014
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc1794