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Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCLA:31158000128339
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781722525101
The Merchant of Venice, is an intriguing drama of love, greed, and revenge. Believed to have been written in 1596, it is classified as a comedy, but while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps remembered more for its dramatic scenes, and especially for the character of Shylock, a vengeful Venetian moneylender. At its heart, the play contrasts the characters of Shylock, with the gracious, level-headed Portia, a wealthy young woman, besieged by suitors. One suitor in particular, Antonio, a merchant in Venice, must default on a large loan provided by Shylock, who insists on the enforcement of the binding contract that will cost the life of Antonio, inciting Portia to mount a memorable defense. In this richly plotted drama, Shylock, whom Shakespeare endowed with the depth and vitality of his greatest characters, is not alone in his villainy. In fact, the large cast of ambitious and scheming characters demonstrates in scene after scene, that honesty is a quality often strained where matters of love and money are concerned. In many of the play’s productions, Shylock gives such powerful expression to his alienation due to the hatred around him that, he emerges as the hero. The suspense and gravity of the play's main plot, along with its romance, have made The Merchant of Venice an audience favorite and one of the most studied and performed of Shakespeare's plays.
Author : William Shakespeare,George Granville Baron Lansdowne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1701
Category : Jews
ISBN : OXFORD:590901167
Author : Edna Nahshon,Michael Shapiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781107010277
This book explores responses to The Merchant of Venice by Jewish writers, critics, theater artists, thinkers, religious leaders and institutions.
Author : Janet Adelman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781459605619
In Blood Relations' Janet Adelman confronts her resistance to The Merchant of Venice as both a critic and a Jew. With her distinctive psychological acumen' she argues that Shakespeares play frames the uneasy relationship between Christian and Jew specifically in familial terms in order to recapitulate the vexed familial relationship between Christianity and Judaism. Adelman locates the promise - threat - of Jewish conversion as a particular site of tension in the play. Drawing on a variety of cultural materials' she demonstrates that' despite the triumph of its Christians' The Merchant of Venice reflects Christian anxiety and guilt about its simultaneous dependence on and disavowal of Judaism. In this startling psycho - theological analysis' both the insistence that Shylocks daughter Jessica remain racially bound to her father after her conversion and the depiction of Shylock as a bloody - minded monster are understood as antidotes to Christian uneasiness about a Judaism it can neither own nor disown. In taking seriously the religious discourse of The Merchant of Venice' Adelman offers in Blood Relations an indispensable book on the play and on the fascinating question of Jews and Judaism in Renaissance England and beyond.
Author : Ferdinand Dugue
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434457677
This forgotten masterpiece of French drama is a reworking of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice--from the point-of-view of Shylock. Ferdinand Dugue succeeds in making the Venetian money-lender entirely believable--embittered, mercenary, tragic, and ultimately Jewish. One of the best modern adaptations of the Bard ever written.
Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231541879
First published in 1996, 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 has learned about intolerance since the first publication of Shakespeare and the Jews.
Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781770483033
First performed by Shakespeare’s rivals in the 1590s, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta was a trend-setting, innovative play whose black comedy and final tragic irony illuminate the darker regions of the Elizabethan cultural imagination. Although Jews were banished from England in 1291, the Jew in the form of Barabas, the play’s protagonist, returns on the stage to embody and to challenge the dramatic and cultural anti-Semitic stereotypes out of which he is constructed. The result is a theatrically sophisticated but deeply unsettling play whose rich cultural significance extends beyond the early modern period to the present day. The introduction and historical documents in this edition provide a rich context for the world of the play’s composition and production, including materials on Jewishness and anti-Semitism, the political struggles over Malta, and Christopher Marlowe’s personal and political reputation.
Author : Benjamin Ravid
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000945492
The Jewish community of early modern Venice was perhaps the leading Jewish community of its time. It emerged as a response to the desire of the Venetian government to make credit readily available and, toward the end of the 16th century, it greatly expanded as Venice, faced with a serious decline in its international maritime trade, adopted a policy of attracting Iberian New Christian merchants. Yet Jews were still treated as the Other and subjected to restrictions and discriminatory measures, including confinement to a segregated enclosed quarter; the 'ghetto'. Despite this, the interplay between economically motivated raison d'état and traditional religious hostility resulted in a delicate balance which enabled the Jewish community of Venice to assume a real leadership role in the world of the Iberian Jewish Diaspora. Based extensively on previously unconsulted documents, these articles deal with central issues in the experience of the Jews of Venice, and so of Diaspora Jewish history in general: the Jewish quarter, maritime trade and urban moneylending, the Jewish distinguishing head-covering, relations with church and state, the forced baptism of Jewish minors, the converso problem, and anti-Judaism.
Author : Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107172593
A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.
Author : George Granville Baron Lansdowne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Jews
ISBN : OCLC:314937275
Author : Cecil Roth
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015012294891
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1711
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019754194
Author : Claudia Oldiges
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640522880
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Osnabrück, course: The Merchant of Venice, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Although one is able to find a lot bias towards Jews in the play The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare is not to be blamed as an anti-Judaic person. Regarding the historical background and the probability of him not knowing a Jewish person, Shakespeare is to be declared as a typical mind of the Elizabethan age. The mentality of the Elizabethan age is resembled in the plot, therefore it was easy for the audience to understand and laugh about this comedy, particularly about the image of the Jew Shylock. Shylock himself has a dominant aversion towards Christians and it is not mentioned whether this attitude derives from his sufferance or is a streak of him. The reader of the past-holocaust-age has a tendency to criticize the Christian behaviour throughout the plot, to feel pity with Shylock and to defend his actions and conduct. A lot of evidence demonstrate fundamental differences and bias between the Jews and Christians in the play The Merchant of Venice. But one ought always consider the time, when the play was written, and the audience, for whom it was written. Fact is that Jews as Christians both pretend to act pious but evidently do not.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473925510
