《威尼斯商人》在莎士比亚的喜剧创作中,占着重要的地位,剧本在塑造理想的人文主义者形象,歌颂人文主义道德原则的胜利的同时,成功地塑造了资本主义经济原始积累时期高利贷者夏洛克这个典型形象,加强了对社会的批判。由于剧本矛盾复杂、内容丰富,所以对剧本主题的认识,历来众说纷纭。最近,评论界流行这样一种看法:认 “Merchant of Venice” plays an important role in Shakespeare’s comedy creation. While script plays an ideal humanist image and praises the victory of the moral principles of humanism, it successfully shaped the period of the primitive accumulation of capitalism economy Locke this typical image, to strengthen the critique of society. Owing to the complicated contradictions and rich contents of the script, the understanding of the theme of the script has always been divided. Recently, commentators have popped a popular view: recognition