The Merchant of Venice
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The Merchant of Venice

Critical Essays

  1. 480 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Merchant of Venice

Critical Essays

About this book

This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play.

The Merchant of Venice is 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.

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Yes, you can access The Merchant of Venice by John W. Mahon, Ellen Macleod Mahon, John W. Mahon,Ellen Macleod Mahon in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism of Shakespeare. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780415929998
eBook ISBN
9781136017667
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism of Shakespeare
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. General Editor’s Introduction
  10. The Fortunes of the Merchant of Venice from 1596 to 2001
  11. Shakespeare’s Merchant and Marlowe’s Other Play
  12. Jewish Daughters: The Question of Philo-Semitism in Elizabethan Drama
  13. Jessica
  14. Textual Deviancy in the Merchant of Venice
  15. Portia and the Ovidian Grotesque
  16. Does Source Criticism Illuminate the Problems of Interpreting The Merchant as a Soured Comedy?
  17. Shylock is Content: A Study in Salvation
  18. Isolation to Communion: A Reading of the Merchant of Venice
  19. The Less into the Greater: Emblem, Analogue, and Deification in the Merchant of Venice
  20. “Nerissa Teaches me What to Believe”: Portia’s Wifely Empowerment in the Merchant of Venice
  21. “Mislike me not for my Complexion”: Whose Mislike? Portia’s? Shakespeare’s? Or that of his Age?
  22. The Merchant of Venice and the Politics of Commerce
  23. Names in the Merchant of Venice
  24. Singing Chords: Performing Shylock and Other Characters in the Merchant of Venice
  25. Making the Merchant of Venice Palatable for U.S. Audiences
  26. Shylock in Performance
  27. Portia Performs: Playing the Role in the Twentieth-Century English Theater
  28. Notes on the Contributors