Wrestling with Shylock : Jewish responses to The Merchant of Venice / edited by Edna Nahshon, Michae...
Wrestling with Shylock : Jewish responses to The Merchant of Venice / edited by Edna Nahshon, Michae...
Wrestling with Shylock : Jewish responses to The Merchant of Venice / edited by Edna Nahshon, Michael Shapiro.
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Call Numbers
G 2017/1826
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxiv, 431 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Preface Edna Nahshon; Part I. Introductions: 1. Literary sources and theatrical interpretations of Shylock Michael Shapiro; 2. The anti-Shylock campaign in America Edna Nahshon; Part II. Discourses: 3. Shylock in German-Jewish historiography Abigail Gillman; 4. Yiddi...
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
"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...
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Wrestling with Shylock : Jewish responses to The Merchant of Venice / edited by Edna Nahshon, Michael Shapiro.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/1826
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74VKVadBBpkO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVadBBpkO
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ISBN
1107010276 hardcover
9781107010277 hardcover
DDC
822.33
MMS ID
991024099960902626
