Sigmund Freud's Essay on The Merchant of Venice

[totally optional reading, for those interested in psychoanalysis and literature]

"The Theme of the Three Caskets" (1913)
Freud, Sigmund. Writings on Art and Literature. Stanford UP 1997

http://books.google.com/books?id=Jf70-7NZlRwC&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=freud++three+caskets&source=bl&ots=MYowSAPKWm&sig=CuUrgtLfZbJPrRce56bv2ol5KNo&hl=en&ei=v155TMGWJpO8sAOO6ajtCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=freud%20%20three%20caskets&f=false