The Merchant of Venice: A Critical Reader
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The Merchant of Venice: A Critical Reader

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
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The Merchant of Venice: A Critical Reader

About this book

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include:
- Essays on the play's critical and performance history
- A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play
- A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice has often been labelled a 'problem play', and throughout the ages it has been an object of both fascination and repulsion. Without neglecting the socio-political and religious issues that are at the heart of the play, this collection of critical essays invites readers to rediscover the variety of approaches that this multifaceted work calls for, exploring its gender aspects, its rich mythological background, its legal matters and the ways in which it has been adapted to the screen. Essays consider the play in relation to its sources, genre and religion, historical and socio-political context and its critical reception and performance history.

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Yes, you can access The Merchant of Venice: A Critical Reader by Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, Lisa Hopkins,Andrew Hiscock in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism in Drama. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
The Arden Shakespeare
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781350082298
eBook ISBN
9781350082304
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism in Drama
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Series
  4. Title Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Series Introduction
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Notes on Contributors
  10. Note on the Text
  11. Timeline
  12. Introduction: The ‘Inter’gatories’ of The Merchant of Venice
  13. 1 The Merchant of Venice: The Critical Backstory
  14. 2 The Merchant of Venice in Performance
  15. 3 The Merchant of Venice: State of the Art
  16. 4 New Directions: ‘Affections Dark as Erebus’ – Religion, Gender and the Passions in The Merchant of Venice
  17. 5 New Directions: ‘The Moon Shines Bright’: Re-viewing the Belmont Mythological Tapestry in Act 5 of The Merchant of Venice
  18. 6 New Directions: ‘That Ugly Treason of Mistrust’: Rhetoric of Credit and the Credit of Rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice
  19. 7 New Directions: The Merchant of Venice On Screen
  20. 8 The Merchant of Venice: Learning and Teaching Resources
  21. Notes
  22. Selected Bibliography
  23. Index
  24. Copyright