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- Title
Merchants of Venice in A Knack to Know an Honest Man.
- Authors
Rutter, Tom
- Abstract
The article argues that the Venetian setting of the play "A Knack to Know an Honest Man" allows the comedy to resolve ideas about trade and merchants in a way that would not be possible, and indeed was not, in other plays set in England and treating trade in the sixteenth century. The author considers the idea that the play could have been influenced by William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."
- Subjects
VENICE (Italy); ITALY; ENGLAND; KNACK to Know an Honest Man, A (Book); MERCHANTS in literature; DRAMA criticism; LITERARY settings; MERCHANT of Venice, The (Play : Shakespeare); SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; INFLUENCE (Literary, artistic, etc.); ENGLISH drama (Comedy); SOCIAL conditions in England; SIXTEENTH century; MEDIEVAL &; Renaissance (Literary period)
- Publication
Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England (Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation), 2006, Vol 19, p194
- ISSN
0731-3403
- Publication type
Literary Criticism