In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. 151 The Merchant of Venice 3 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. Harold Bloom, the Yale University eminence who died in 2019 at age 89, was the most famous, most prolific, and to use the apt word most influential literary critic in America from the time he published The Anxiety of Influence in 1973. The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 15. First published 02 August 2005 last revised 20 January 2020. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.ĭrakakis, John.
His more than forty books include The Anxiety of Influence. You are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds. Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. Offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. Institution ( see List), you should be able to access the LE onĬampus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we Harold Bloom asserts one would have to be blind.
If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing Few of Shakespeares comedies have aroused such contradictory passions as The Merchant of Venice.
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