"Shakespeare’s Cure for Xenophobia" - Stephen Greenblatt

A lustreless protrusive eye
Stares from the protozoic slime
At a perspective of Canaletto.
The smoky candle end of time

Declines. On the Rialto once.
The rats are underneath the piles.
The jew is underneath the lot.

What “The Merchant of Venice” taught me about ethnic hatred and the literary imagination.