"Early Mimics: Shylock, Machiavelli, and the Commodification of Nationhood"
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Author:
	Oz, Avraham.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Marotti, Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions, 107–35.
:
	Marotti, Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions
Annotation:
	Examines functions of mimicry for Shylock and their role in Machiavellian nation-building in Merchant of Venice. Argues that "the issue of alien infiltrators into the emerging national unity in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England, as reflected in the theater of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, is inseparable from the issue of . . . the commodification of nationhood."
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Marotti, Arthur F.; Goodblatt, Chanita; Machiavelli, Niccolo
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Merchant of Venice
WSB Update:
	Summer 2015
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc2083