Wrestling with Shylock - Jewish Responses to The Merchant of Venice (Hardcover)

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice occupies a unique place in world culture. As the fictional, albeit iconic, character of Shylock has been interpreted as exotic outsider, social pariah, melodramatic villain and tragic victim, the play, which has been performed and read in dozens of languages, has served as a lens for examining ideas and images of the Jew at various historical moments. In the last two hundred years, many of the play's stage interpreters, spectators, readers and adapters have themselves been Jews, whose responses are often embedded in literary, theatrical and musical works. This volume examines the ever-expanding body of Jewish responses to Shakespeare's most Jewishly relevant play.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2017
Editors:	Edna Nahshon • Michael Shapiro
Dimensions:	235 x 158 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	452
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-01027-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
LSN:	1-107-01027-6
Barcode:	9781107010277

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