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The Merchant of Venice: Critical Essay by Samuel Ajzenstat

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SOURCE: Ajzenstat, Samuel. “Contract in The Merchant of Venice.Philosophy and Literature 21, no. 2 (October 1997): 262-78.

In the following essay, Ajzenstat evaluates The Merchant of Venice as a romantic comedy featuring a number of significant oppositions, the most fundamental being that between “the conditional and the unconditional.”

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