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\"merchant<\/a>By Stephen Greenblatt*<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is something very strange about experiencing The Merchant of Venice<\/em> and knowing that you are somehow imaginatively implicated not only in the play\u2019s romantic hero and heroine but also, and to an even greater degree, in its villain. You laugh when Shylock\u2019s servant, the clown Gobbo, runs away from his penny-pinching master. You smile when Shylock\u2019s daughter Jessica, having escaped from her father\u2019s dark house into the arms of her beloved, declares, \u201cI shall be saved by my husband. He hath made me a Christian.\u201d You shudder when the implacable Shylock sharpens his knife on the sole of his boot. You applaud the resolution of the dilemma, when the clever Portia comes up with the legal technicality that undoes Shylock\u2019s murderous plan. He who had insisted upon the letter of the law is undone by the letter of the law.
\nBut, all the same, you feel uneasy. What exactly is it that you are applauding and smiling at? How do you view the Jewish daughter who robs her father and bestows the money on her fortune-hunting Christian suitor? Do you join the raucous laughter of the Christians who mock and spit on the Jew? Where are you, at the end of the harrowing scene in the courtroom, when Portia asks the man she has ruined whether he agrees to the terms she has dictated, terms that include the provision that he immediately become a Christian: \u201cArt thou contented, Jew? What dost thou say?\u201d And what do you think the Jew actually feels when he answers, \u201cI am content.\u201d
\n
\n*Stephen Greenblatt is a professor at Harvard University. This article was published in the booklet by Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice, Compagnia de\u2019 Colombari and Committee for the 500 years of the Ghetto on the occasion of the new production of \u201cThe Merchant of Venice\u201d performed for the first time in the Ghetto. The picture is by Giovanni Montenero.
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