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I didn't know how much space I could take up in the little box. When writing about TMoV, you can deal with the text on several different levels - the structuring of language (of which Wild Bill was the master); the possible reasons for Antonio's melancholia - his unrequited man!love - and the anti-Semitism inherent in the text: Shylock's horrible forced conversion to Christianity is itself a crime so monstrous as to be on par with the physical price Shylock would have willingly exacted from Antonio earlier in the text. You could also examine Portia's nascent feminism - masquerading as a lawyer, a woman in a man's world, made to marry whomever guessed her father's riddle.

In conclusion: SHAKESPEARE IS ALWAYS THE ANSWER.