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The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most controversial
plays, whose elements resonate even more profoundly in the current
climate of rising racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia,
anti-immigrant sentiment, queerphobia and right-wing nationalism.
This collection of essays offers a 'freeze frame' that showcases a
range of current debates and ideas surrounding the play. Each
chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and
relevance to your needs. Essays offer new perspectives that provide
an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging
about the play. Key themes and topics include: * Race and religion
* Gender and sexuality * Philosophy * Animal studies * Adaptations
and performance history
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most controversial
plays, whose elements resonate even more profoundly in the current
climate of rising racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia,
anti-immigrant sentiment, queerphobia and right-wing nationalism.
This collection of essays offers a 'freeze frame' that showcases a
range of current debates and ideas surrounding the play. Each
chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and
relevance to your needs. Essays offer new perspectives that provide
an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging
about the play. Key themes and topics include: · Race and religion
· Gender and sexuality · Philosophy · Animal studies ·
Adaptations and performance history
Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of
early modern England. A category of discourse which transgresses
the law, it offers a more historically grounded and fluid account
of power relations between poets and the state than that offered by
the commonly accepted model of official censorship. An
investigation of slander reveals it to be an effective, unstable
and reversible means of repudiating one's opposition that could be
deployed by rulers or poets. Spenser, Jonson and Shakespeare each
use the paradigm of slander to challenge official criticism of
poetry, while contemporary legal theory associates slander with
poetry. However, even as rulers themselves make use of slander in
the form of propaganda to demonize those they perceive to be their
foes, ultimately they are unable to contain completely the threat
posed by slanderous accusations against the state.
Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of
early modern England. A category of discourse which transgresses
the law, it offers a more historically grounded and fluid account
of power relations between poets and the state than that offered by
the commonly accepted model of official censorship. An
investigation of slander reveals it to be an effective, unstable
and reversible means of repudiating one's opposition that could be
deployed by rulers or poets. Spenser, Jonson and Shakespeare each
use the paradigm of slander to challenge official criticism of
poetry, while contemporary legal theory associates slander with
poetry. However, even as rulers themselves make use of slander in
the form of propaganda to demonize those they perceive to be their
foes, ultimately they are unable to contain completely the threat
posed by slanderous accusations against the state.
How did the new developments of the Renaissance affect the way women were understood by men and the way they understood themselves? Addressing a wide range of issues across Renaissance culture--humanism, technology, science, anatomy, literacy, theater, domesticity, colonialism, and sex--this collection of essays attempts to answer that question. In doing so, the authors discover that the female subject of the Renaissance shares a surprising amount of conceptual territory with her postmodern counterpart.
This edition of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice reprints the
Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of
thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed
to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and
the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts
include maps, woodcuts, sermons, statutes, early modern documents
reflecting Christian attitudes toward Jews and Jewish reactions to
these attitudes, excerpts from the Bible on money lending as well
as contemporary discourses on usury and commerce, and excerpts from
the first account of Jewish life written in the vernacular by a Jew
for a Christian audience. The documents contextualize contemporary
discourses on race, nationality, and religion; the place of Venice
in the early modern English imagination; merchant culture; and
marriage, sexuality, and friendship in the period.
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