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Monica J. Hamill, Poetry, Law, and the Pursuit of Perfection: Portia's Role in The Merchant of Venice, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 18, No. 2, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Spring, 1978), pp. 229-243
Monica Joyce Hamill (1978) studied this question.