"'What news on the Rialto?': Alcune considerazioni sociologico-comunicative su Il mercante di Venezia [Some sociologico-communicative considerations on The Merchant of Venice]"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo925/
Author:
	Cristante, Stefano.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2018
Publication Information:
	Lingue e Linguaggi 27 (2018): 139–63.
DOI:
	10.1285/i22390359v27p139
Annotation:
	Undertakes analysis of three characters, suggesting that Antonio's sadness is so deep that he "suffer[s] in advance for his future loneliness (when Bassanio will marry Portia)"; that Portia "is the most dynamic character of the comedy" and shows Shakespeare's proto-feminism; and that Shylock is both "odious" and an "emblem of injustice." English summary, 139.
Language:
	Italian
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Merchant of Venice
WSB Update:
	Winter 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo925