在20世纪， Jonson s全部作品是主题您生活变化的套分析，宽广地一致与现代文艺评论兴趣和节目。 在杂文打印了 神圣的木头 T.S. 艾略特企图您否定充电Jonson是一个干旱的古典主义者通过分析想像力卷在他的对话。 他的Eliots是有鉴赏力的Jonson的整体构想，并且“表面”，看法辅音以现代派反应反对浪漫批评，趋向您denigrate没有集中心理深度的表示法的编剧。 在中世纪附近，到评论家和学者的数字跟随了Eliot s带头，导致口头Jonson s样式的详述的研究。 在同样队，伊丽莎白女王的题材的研究和大会，这样那些由E.E。 Stoll和 M. C. Bradbrook，假设它居住生动的感觉怎样Jonson s工作由他的队的期望塑造。E.E.Stoll 对shakespeare的“Merchant of Venice" 中犹太人Shylock 性格分析的见解：
Shakespeare deliberately incorporated all the conventional attitudes towards Jews in the character of Shylock, who consequently emerges as complete villain and comic butt. It must be concluded that Shakespeare has no kindly thoughts for Shylock from the following facts: no other character in the play has anything good to say about him, although many (including his daughter and servant who know him well) have unfavorable comments. Secondly, the only time when we might be tempted to feel sorry for Shylock, when his daughter runs away, we are not permitted to see his reaction for ourselves, but are told about it by Salanio and Salarino in such a way that Shylock seems much more monstrous than his daughter. Finally, we are allowed to hear Shylock remark in an aside at the very beginning of the play that he hates Antonio and looks forward to getting revenge on him if he can. The soliloquies and asides in Shakespeare are always indicative of the true feelings of a character. According to Stoll, then, the audience was not meant to commiserate or sympathize with Shylock at any point in the play.
His Shylock is a composite production of Shakespeare the Jew-hater, and of Shakespeare the dramatist. Sometimes in the play the figure is clearly the Shylock of mob prescription; at the other times, it is the Shylock, which the play itself is making. Very frequently it is a Shylock whose traits may satisfy the desires of either Shakespeare. It is particularly noteworthy that Shylock as he was meant to be is more often to be found at the outset of scenses in which he appears, or at other moments in the action where the poet’s dramatic intuition has not been excited to function in its own proper mode.
