Abstract
Departing from Luther's distinction between gifts between people as being things of “portions and pieces” as opposed to the wholeness of God's gift of grace, this paper explores the nature of the gift in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as a mode of forging, negotiating or alienating love. The argument will encompass the analysis of the nature of the gift by Marcel Maus and Jacques Derrida, and explore parallels between Shakespeare's comedy and his sonnets.
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