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9780415929998

The Merchant of Venice: Critical Essays

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415929998

  • ISBN10:

    0415929997

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-08-02
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The Merchant of Veniceis a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a modern audience. The characters, Portia and Shylock, are examined in fascinating detail. With in-depth analyses of the text, the play in performance and individual characters, this book promises to be the essential resource on the play for all Shakespeare enthusiasts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors
General Editor's Introduction
Introduction
Shakespeare's Merchant and Marlowe's Other Play
Jewish Daughters: The Question of Philo-Semitism in Elizabethan Drama
Jessica
Textual Delivery in The Merchant of Venice
Portia and the Ovidian Grotesque
Does Source-Criticism Illuminate the Problems of Interpreting The Merchant as a Soured Comedy?
Shylock Is Content: A Study in Salvation
Isolation to Communion: A Reading of William Shakespeare's
The Less into the Greater: Emblem, Analogue and Deification in The Merchant of Venice
"Nerissa Teached Me What To Believe": Portia's Wifely Empowerment in The Merchant of Venice
"Mislike Me Not For My Complexion": Whose Mislike? Shakespeare's? That of the Age?
The Merchant of Venice and the Politics of Commerce
Names in The Merchant of Venice Palatable for US Audiences
Shylock in Performance
Portia Performs: Playing the Role in the Twentieth-Century English Theater
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