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  1. Shakespeare and the Jews
    Author: Shapiro, James S.
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's day. From accounts of Christians masquerading as Jews to fantasies of settling... more

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    James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's day. From accounts of Christians masquerading as Jews to fantasies of settling foreign Jews in Ireland, Shapiro's work delves deeply into the cultural insecurities of Elizabethans while illuminating Shakespeare's portrayal of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. In a new preface, Shapiro reflects upon what he failed to understand about intolerance since the first publication.--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780231178679; 9780231541879
    RVK Categories: HI 3385
    Edition: Twentieth anniversary edition, with a new preface
    Subjects: Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, William); English drama; Shylock (Fictitious character); Jews / History / 16th century; Jews / History / 17th century; Jews / History / 18th century; Judaism in literature; Jews in literature; Shylock (Personnage fictif); Juifs / Histoire / 16e siècle; Juifs / Histoire / 17e siècle; Juifs / Histoire / 18e siècle; Judaïsme dans la littérature; Juifs dans la littérature; Jews; Jews in literature; Judaism in literature; Shylock (Fictitious character); Joden; Beeldvorming; Letterkunde; Engels; Juifs - Histoire - 16e siècle; Juifs - Histoire - 17e siècle; Juifs - Histoire - 18e siècle; Juden (Motiv); Juden; Darstellung; Englisch; Geschichte; Juden; Literatur; Juden <Motiv>; Juden
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Merchant of Venice; Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Characters / Jews; Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Personnages / Juifs; Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William; Shylock; Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> - Personnages - Juifs; Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> / Merchant of Venice; Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / The merchant of Venice; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): The merchant of Venice; Shylock; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
    Scope: xv, 317 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-304) and index

    1. False Jews and Counterfeit Christians -- 2. Myths, Histories, Consequences -- 3. The Jewish Crime -- 4. "The Pound of Flesh" -- 5. The Hebrew Will Turn Christian -- 6. Race, Nation, or Alien? -- 7. Shakespeare and the Jew Bill of 1753
  2. New readings of The merchant of Venice
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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  3. Shylock is Shakespeare
    Author: Gross, Kenneth
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226309770; 0226309924; 9780226309774; 9780226309927
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare; DRAMA / Shakespeare; Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, William); Shylock (Fictitious character); Shylock (Fictitious character)
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): Merchant of Venice; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shylock; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): The merchant of Venice
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 202 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-196) and index

    Beginning -- The heart of it -- Shylock's nothing -- The house of the three caskets -- Exchanges -- Shylock unbound -- Are you answered -- A theater of complicity -- The third possessor -- Conversion -- Golems and ghosts -- A dream -- Esthétique du mal -- Operation Shylock

    Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice who famously demands a pound of flesh as security for a loan to his antisemitic tormentors, is one of Shakespeare?s most complex and idiosyncratic characters. With his unsettling eloquence and his varying voices of protest, play, rage, and refusal, Shylock remains a source of perennial fascination. What explains the strange and enduring force of this character, so unlike that of any other in Shakespeare?s plays? Kenneth Gross posits that the figure of Shylock is so powerful because he is the voice of Shakespeare himself. Marvelously spe
  4. Reading Shakespeare's will
    the theology of figure from Augustine to the sonnets
    Author: Freinkel, Lisa
    Published: ©2002
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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  5. Literature insights, William Shakespeare
    the Merchant of Venice
    Published: c2009
    Publisher:  Humanities-Ebooks, Tirril, Penrith

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1847600999; 9781847600998
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare; DRAMA / Shakespeare; Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, William); Shylock (Fictitious character); Shylock (Fictitious character)
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Criticism and interpretation; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): Merchant of Venice
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (111 p.)
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    Title from PDF title page (viewed July 27, 2011)

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-110), filmography (p. 110-111)

    Shakespeare: his life, his schooling, his theatre. Life -- Shakespeare's schooling -- Shakespeare and London's theatre business

    The Merchant of Venice in context. Genre -- Shakespeare's Venice, Shakespeare's London -- Foreigners in Venice and London

    Act 1: The embarrassment of riches. Act 1, Scene 1: Venice, Venetians, Antonio, Bassanio -- Act 1, Scene 2: Portia's Belmont -- Act 1, Scene 3: Shylock's Venice

    Act 2: Confusions and exclusions. Morocco and Arragon -- Jessica's elopement, Lorenzo, Venetians -- Lancelot, the subversive fool -- Expunging otherness

    Act 3: Loss and gain. Act 3, Scene 1: Xenophobia, flesh, blood and rings -- Act 3, Scene 3: Caskets and cultural codes; love and money -- Jessica and xenophobia

    Act 4, Scene 1: Trial and tribulations. Venetians at court: law and 'ancient malice', Shylock, Antonio, Bassanio -- Portia: 'The quality of mercy' Venetian style -- Portia: Rearranging emotional hierarchies

    Act 5, Scene 1: The gardens of Belmont. Jessica and Lorenzo -- Rings and 'parchment bonds'

    A very brief survey of performance and criticism -- Suggestions for further reading, filmography. Recent editions -- Performance criticism -- Criticism -- filmography
  6. Shakespeare and Venice
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Ashgate Gower, [S.l.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780754666066; 0754666069
    Subjects: Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, William); Othello (Shakespeare, William); Literature; Literatur; Wissen; Venedig <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Criticism and interpretation / Knowledge / Venice (Italy); Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Merchant of Venice / Criticism and interpretation / Knowledge / Venice (Italy); Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Othello / Criticism and interpretation / Knowledge / Venice (Italy); Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): Merchant of Venice; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): Othello; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
    Scope: 162
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    Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: 8216;This is Venice8217; -- 1 Renaissance Venice -- 2 Jew and Moor -- 3 Merchant and Jew of Venice -- 4 Moor and Whore of Venice -- 5 Shakespeare8217;s Venice in Fiction -- 6 Shakespeare8217;s Venice on Film -- Conclusion: Particularities -- Works Cited -- Index

    Shakespeare and Venice is the first book-length study to describe and chronicle the mythological and fabulous status of Venice that was employed by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice and Othello to explore themes of metamorphosis. Graham Holderness provides a full account of Venetian myth, historical accounts of the city's relationship with both Judaism and Islam, and detailed readings of Shakespeare's Venetian plays against the city's mythical and historical dimensions
  7. Visions of Venice in Shakespeare
    Published: ©2011
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781409405481; 1409405486; 1282963287; 9781282963283; 9781409405474; 1409405478
    Series: Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series
    Subjects: Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, William); Othello (Shakespeare, William); DRAMA / Shakespeare; LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare; Literature; Literatur; Wissen; Venedig <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): Merchant of Venice; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): Othello; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
    Scope: xviii, 259 pages
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Foreword / Stanley Wells -- Introduction: visions of Venice in Shakespeare / Laura Tosi and Shaul Bassi -- Supersubtle Venetians: Richard Knolles and the geopolitics of Shakespeare's Othello / Virginia Mason Vaughan / Venice, Shakespeare and the Italian novella / Daria Perocco -- Genealogy of a character: a reading of Giraldi's Moor / Karina Feliciano Attar -- Shakespeare and republican Venice / Andrew Hadfield -- 'Self-sovereignty' and religion in Love's labour's lost : from London to Venice via Navarre / Gilberto Sacerdoti -- Job in Venice: Shakespeare and the travails of universalism / Julia Reinhard Lupton -- 'Strangers ... with vs in Venice' / Graham Holderness -- Shakespeare, Jonson and Venice : crossing boundaries in the city / Laura Tosi -- The return from the dead in The merchant of Venice / Kent Cartwright -- Othello and Venice: discrimination and projection /Alessandro Serpieri -- Merchant of where? The Venetian plays in English visual culture / Stuart Sillars -- Rewriting Venice and radicalizing Shylock: nineteenth-century French and Romanian adaptations of The merchant of Venice / Madalina Nicolaescu -- Barefoot to Palestine: the failed meetings of Shylock and Othello / Shaul Bassi

    Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. This timely collect