"This "Routledge Literary Sourcebook" provides the ideal orientation to "The Merchant of Venice." It offers: extensive annotated extracts from the play; contemporary documents; discussion of the play in performance; twentieth century critical readings of the play; suggestions for further reading and an annotated bibliography. All documents are discussed and explained and Susan Cerasano's indispensable introductory materials mean this is a guidebook you can't afford to be without."--Jacket.