| Description |
xiv, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Shakespeare criticism. |
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Shakespeare criticism.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Fortunes of The Merchant of Venice From 1596 to 2001 / John W. Mahon -- Shakespeare's Merchant and Marlowe's Other Play / Murray J. Levith -- Jewish Daughters: The Question of Philo-Semitism in Elizabethan Drama / Joan Ozark Holmer -- Jessica / John Drakakis -- Textual Deviancy in The Merchant of Venice / John F. Andrews -- Portia and the Ovidian Grotesque / John W. Velz -- Does Source Criticism Illuminate the Problems of Interpreting The Merchant as a Soured Comedy? / John K. Hale -- Shylock is Content: A Study in Salvation / Hugh Short -- Isolation to Communion: A Reading of The Merchant of Venice / Maryellen Keefe -- Less Into the Greater: Emblem, Analogue, and Deification in The Merchant of Venice / John Cunningham and Stephen Slimp -- "Nerissa Teaches Me What to Believe": Portia's Wifely Empowerment in The Merchant of Venice / Corinne S. Abate -- "Mislike Me Not for My Complexion": Whose Mislike? Portia's? Shakespeare's? Or That of his Age? / R. W. Desai -- Merchant of Venice and the Politics of Commerce / Karoline Szatek -- Names in The Merchant of Venice / Grace Tiffany -- Singing Chords: Performing Shylock and Other Characters in The Merchant of Venice / Jay L. Halio -- Making The Merchant of Venice Palatable for U.S. Audiences / Gayle Gaskill -- Shylock in Performance / John O'Connor -- Portia Performs: Playing the Role in the Twentieth-Century English Theater / Penny Gay. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice.
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Venice (Italy) -- In literature.
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Shylock (Fictitious character)
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Jews in literature.
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Comedy.
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| Added Author |
Mahon, John W.
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Mahon, Ellen Macleod, 1940-
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| ISBN |
0415411009 paperback |
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9780415411004 paperback |
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