The Merchant of Venice（ISBN=9780521532518）

Charles Edelman focuses on the play's sexual politics and recent scholarship devoted to the position of Jews in Shakespeare's time in this new edition. He surveys the international scope of theatrical interpretations of The Merchant in the 1980s and 1990s as well as different ways of tackling the troubling figure of Shylock. First Edition Hb (1988): 0-521-22156-0 First Edition Pb (1988): 0-521-29371-5

List of illustrations 
Preface
Abbreviations and conventions
Introduction
  Date and source
  Some attitudes and assumptions behind the play
  Experiencing the play
  The afterlife of The Merchant of Venice
  Recent critical and stage interpretations, by Charles Edelman
Note on the text
List of characters
THE PLAY
Supplementary note
Textual analysis
Appendix: Shakespeare's use of the Bible in The Merchant ofVenice
Reading list