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\"merchant<\/a>By Carol Chillington Rutter*<\/strong><\/p>\n

When we address The Merchant of Venice<\/em> today, it is quite tempting to focus on the men. Let us reverse the gaze. Let us take a long look at the women. Let us consider the play as a romantic comedy that pursues a double \u2018quest\u2019 to \u2018get the girl\u2019. Is that the play\u2019s \u2018problem\u2019? Is the \u2018quest\u2019 heroic or tawdry, the male questers Jasons — or pirates? Are the women trouble makers or trouble shooters? Is the elopement of Jessica the crisis that turns her father murderous? Is the \u2018mercy\u2019 the law clerk offers the appellant in court in place of vindication a saving grace that, denying him judicial killing, saving him from murder, preserves him from the irreparable mistake that (in Shakespeare) is always (pace Macbeth) a form of suicide? Does \u2018Tarry, Jew\u2019 have the women in man\u2019s clothing merely reinstantiating the patriarchal law-of-the-father (parodied in the lottery to determine which of Portia\u2019s suitors will be vindicated) that makes a mockery of \u2018mercy\u2019? Or are all of these binaries — that shadow the binaries the play sets up, Jew\/ Christian, Venice\/Belmont, law\/mercy, profligacy\/usury, the prodigal wastrel\/the careful father — finally incommensurate with the complexities the play traffics in?<\/p>\n

*Carol Chillington Rutter is a professor at Warwick Unversity. 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 Andrea Messana.
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