Galery, Maria Clara Versiani2019-06-132019-06-132018GALERY, M. C. V. Wonder, ambivalence and heterotopia: the city in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura, Belo Horizonte, v. 28, n. 3, p. 29-45, 2018. Disponível em: <http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/aletria/article/view/13766/0>. Acesso em: 19 mar. 2019.2317-2096http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/11539This essay proposes a discussion of the representation of Venice in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, addressing the city as a site of ambivalence and cultural interrogation. It examines how Shakespeare drew on the “myth of Venice” to create a space into which Renaissance anxieties about justice, gender, religion and finances were projected. Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia is applied here to show how representations of Venice are used to mirror Elizabethan and Jacobean society. The essay also proposes an analysis of how the Italian city-state is rendered in Michael Radford’s filmic adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, with special attention to the images of the prostitutes in the film, and the ambivalent portrayal of the justice system during the courtroom scene.en-USabertoArtigo publicado em periodicoTodo o conteúdo do periódico Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura, exceto onde identificado, está licenciado sob uma licença Creative Commons 4.0 que permite copiar, distribuir e transmitir o trabalho em qualquer suporte ou formato desde que sejam citados o autor e o licenciante. Fonte: Aletria <http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/aletria/about/submissions#copyrightNotice>. Acesso em: 14 out. 2016.http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.28.3.29-45