A fury in the words: love and embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice

Mercifixion in The merchant of Venice: the riches of embarrassment

Introduction

Negotiating the bond

Antonio's blues

Curiositas: the two Sallies

Negative usury and the arts of embarrassment

Negative usury: Portia's ring trick

Portia the embarrasser

The archery of embarrassment

The first Jason

A note on verse and prose in Act 1

Another Jason

Portia cheating

Portia's hair

The siege of Belmont

Covinous casketeers

Moonlit maundering

Coigns of vantage

Standing for judgment

Standing for sacrifice

"Here is the money": Bassanio in the bond market

Twilight in Belmont: Portia's ring cycle

Death in Venice

Three's company: contaminated intimacy in Othello. Prehistory in Othello

Othello's embarrassment in 1.2 and 1.3

The proclamation scenes: Act 2 scenes 2 and 3

Desdemona on Cyprus: Act 2 scene 1

Dark triangles in 3.3

Desdemona's greedy ear

Impertinent trifling: Desdemona's handkerchief

The Emilian trail

Iago's soliloquies

Othello's endgame

The fury in her words.