"Shakespeare's Sacrificial Victims: The Merchant of Venice and King Lear" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc190/ Author: Dean, Paul. Type: Journal Article Year: 2013 Publication Information: Essays in Criticism 63, no. 2 (2013): 128–47. Annotation: Explores the presence of a religious subtext in Shakespeare's examination of ritual and its relation to sacrifice in Merchant of Venice and King Lear. Language: English Keywords: ritual; religion; sacrifice Tags: King Lear, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Merchant of Venice WSB Update: Summer 2013 WSB Record Number: bbbc190