"Opening the Sacred Body or the Profaned Host in The Merchant of Venice"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc864/
Author:
	Gleyzon, François-Xavier.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	English Studies 94, no.  7 (2013): 821–44.
Annotation:
	Suggests that Shylock's attempt to open Antonio's Christian body to take the pound of flesh in Merchant of Venice "represents and reproduces a willingness to attack and to profane the Eucharist." English summary, 821.
Language:
	English
Cross-References:
	Gleyzon, Shakespeare and the Future of Theory
Keywords:
	Shylock; body; Antonio (Merchant of Venice); Eucharist
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Merchant of Venice
WSB Update:
	Winter 2013
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc864