Preface
Introduction
1. Literary and Dramatic Analysis
2. Venice and Its Treatment of Jews
FROM:
Laurence Aldersey's Account of Venice (1581)
Thomas Coryat, Coryat's Crudities (1611)
Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (1617)
Fynes Moryson, Shakespeare's Europe (1617)
William Thomas, The History of Italy (1549)
3. Attitudes Toward Jews
FROM:
Martin Luther, "Christ Was Born a Jew" (1523)
Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity,Book 5 (1597)
An Enterlude of the Vertuous and Godly Queene
Hester (ca. 1522-27)
The Trial of Dr. Roderigo Lopez (1594)
William Camden's History of the Reign of Queen
Elizabeth (1607-17, 1625)
4. Classical and Renaissance Concepts of Male Friendship
FROM:
Cicero, De Amicitia (44 B.C.)
Sir Thomas Elyot, The Governor (1531)
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1596)
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship" (ca. 1580)
Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Friendship" (1625)
5. Elizabethan Marriage
FROM:
Heinrich Bullinger, The Christian State of
Matrimony (1541)
Edwin Sandys, Sermons (1585)
Henry Smith, A Preparative to Marriage (1591)
6. Usury, Interest, and the Rise of Capitalism
FROM:
The Geneva Bible (1560)
An Act against Usury (1571)
John Woolley's Speech in Parliament (1571)
Thomas Wilson, A Discourse upon Usury (1572)
John Calvin, Commentaries on the Last Books of
Moses (1554)
Yehiel Nissim da Pisa, The Eternal Life (1559)
Phillip Stubbes, The Anatomy of Abuses (1583)
7. Contemporary Applications and Interpretation
FROM:
Tom Tugend, "Synagogue arson suspects kept
'hit-list' of Sacramento-area Jews" (1999)
Bob Herbert, "Endless Poison" (1999)
A Letter by John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of
New York (1999)
A. Engler Anderson, "Male Bonding" (1994)
William Triplett, "The Shylock Within" (1999)
Index