"The Kindest Cut: Circumcision and Queer Kinship in The Merchant of Venice"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc1817/
Author:
	Greenstadt, Amy.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	ELH 80, no.  4 (2013): 946–80.
Annotation:
	Explores the meanings of of "kind" and "kindness" in Merchant of Venice. Argues that the relationships in the play can be understood in context of Jewish rites of circumcision, "a form of bonding based on mutual sacrifice." Also discusses the similarities between circumcision and defloration, submitting that the women in the play also work into these bonds of "queer kinship."
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Merchant of Venice
WSB Update:
	Winter 2014
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc1817