{"id":30902,"date":"2023-11-29T15:01:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=253146"},"modified":"2023-11-29T22:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:12:47","slug":"shakespeare-past-master-7-the-merchant-of-venice","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/shakespeare-past-master-7-the-merchant-of-venice\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare: Past Master | 7. The Merchant of Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Transporting audiences to a ruthless world of moneylending and murderous revenge, the drama features characters now widely regarded as offensively stereotypical \u2013 but also offers insights into how nascent capitalism was viewed in the playwright\u2019s era <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Matt Elton\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 29 November 2023 at 14:01 PM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Officially classed as a comedy, William Shakespeare\u2019s <em>The Merchant of Venice<\/em> is chiefly remembered for its dramatic tale of romance and revenge \u2013 and its antisemitic tropes. Yet, argues Emma Smith, it also contains valuable real-world insights into the economics of the era.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-253146-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/HistoryExtraShakespeareE4-74d7835.mp3?_=2\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/HistoryExtraShakespeareE4-74d7835.mp3\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/HistoryExtraShakespeareE4-74d7835.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<section class=\"highlight \"> <div class=\"highlight__content editor-content\"> <p>Want to listen to more episodes? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/podcast-series\/shakespeare-past-master-a-historyextra-podcast-series\/\">Listen to the rest of our series here<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Transporting audiences to a ruthless world of moneylending and murderous revenge, the drama features characters now widely regarded as offensively stereotypical \u2013 but also offers insights into how nascent capitalism was viewed in the playwright\u2019s era <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30903,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-7-the-merchant-of-venice.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-7-the-merchant-of-venice-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-7-the-merchant-of-venice-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-7-the-merchant-of-venice.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-7-the-merchant-of-venice.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-7-the-merchant-of-venice.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-7-the-merchant-of-venice.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Transporting audiences to a ruthless world of moneylending and murderous revenge, the drama features characters now widely regarded as offensively stereotypical \u2013 but also offers insights into how nascent capitalism was viewed in the playwright\u2019s era","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/30902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}