SOURCES FOR THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

(perhaps) Gernuthus, a Jew, a Ballad Showing the Extreme Cruelty of (f.pr.1620).

Fiorentino, Giovanni, Il Pecerone (pr. 1558). 4.1.

(perhaps) Gower, John. Confessio Amantis (1483).

(perhaps) Salernitano, Masuccio. Il Novellino (1475).

(perhaps) Sylvain, Alexandre. The Orator. Trans. Laurence Pyot (1596).

(perhaps) Robinson, Richard, ed. Gesta Romanorum (f. pr. 1502). History 32.

(perhaps) Munday, Anthony. Zelauto, or The Fountain of Fame (narrative, 1580).

REFERENCE : Jay L. Halio, ed. The Merchant of Venice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 13-21.