"Economic Obsession in Early Literary Imagination: Shakespeare, Jonson and More"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo524/
Author:
	So, Francis K.H.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2019
Publication Information:
	interlitteraria 24, no. 1 (2019): 67–80.
DOI:
	10.12697/IL.2019.24.1.6
Annotation:
	Argues that Merchant of Venice exemplifies early modern society's preoccupation with class, "consumption, fear of poverty, and social justice/injustice," and ultimately demonstrates the pitfalls of capitalism. English summary, 67.
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Merchant of Venice
WSB Update:
	Summer 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo524