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The merchant of Venice : authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations, William Shakespeare ; edited by Leah S. Marcus
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- Summary
- Presents Shakespeare's comedy about a creditor demanding a pound of flesh in payment of a defaulted debt and a love who must choose among three caskets in a riddle game to win the hand of a wealthy lady. This Norton Critical Edition includes the full text of the play, plus a "Sources and Context" section that gives special attention to the character of Shylock and the issue of the play's anti-Semitism, the "Criticism" section which collects twenty-one essays of wide-ranging interpretations on various issues including anti-Semitism, postcolonial and race studies, feminist and queer theory, and economic and social organization. Finally, included are a selection of poems, mainly from the 20th century, on the character of Shylock
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 347 pages
- Contents
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- Sources and contexts: The tale of the three caskets from the Gesta Romanorum / R. Robinson -- The Merchant of Venice / G. Fiorentino -- Ballad of a cruel Jew / Anonymous -- The true meaning of friendship / Sir Thomas Elyot -- Duties of husband and wife / Edwin Sandys -- The Merchant: a sermon preached at Paul's cross / Daniel Price -- Description of Venice / Thomas Coryat -- The case of Doctor Lopez / William Camden -- Causes of the miseries of the Jews / Thomas Calvert -- Judaizing Christians in the 1590s / Peter Heylyn -- Parliamentary debate on usury, April 19, 1571 / Sir Simonds D'Ewes -- An apology for the honorable nation of the Jews / Edward Nicholas
- Criticism: Remarks on 'The Merchant of Venice' / Nicholas Rowe -- The Merchant of Venice / William Hazlitt -- Portia / Anna Jameson -- Jessica and Portia / Heinrich Heine -- The theme of the three caskets / Sigmund Freud -- The music of 'The Merchant of Venice' / G. Wilson Knight -- Biblical allusion and allegory in 'The Merchant of Venice' / Barbara K. Lewalski -- Platonic doctrine and the music of Act 5 / Lawrence Danson -- Shylock and the idea of the Jew / Derek Cohen -- Wilhelm S and Shylock / Laurence Lerner -- Edmund Kean as Shylock / Toby Lelyveld -- Circumcision and the "Pound of flesh" / James Shapiro -- Shylocks in Shakespeare's England / Stephen Orgel -- The Shakespeares as money-lenders / Charles Edelman -- 'The Merchant of Venice' and protocapitalism / Walter Cohen -- Portia's ring: Unruly women and structures of exchange in 'The Merchant of Venice' / Karen Newman -- How to read 'The Merchant of Venice' without being heterosexist / Alan Sinfield -- Racism and homophobia in 'The Merchant of Venice' / James O'Rourke -- Guess who's coming to dinner? Colonization and miscegenation in 'The Merchant of Venice' / Kim F. Hall -- "Mislike me not for my complexion": Whose mislike? Portia's? Shakespeare's or that of his age? / R. W. Desai -- 'The Merchant of Venice' in Israel / Avraham Oz
- Rewritings and Appropriations: Prologue for a revival of 'The Merchant of Venice' at the time of the Parliamentary Bill for Naturalizing the Jews / John Cunningham -- Shylock / Iain Crichton Smith -- Shylock the writer / Alan Sillitoe -- Shylock / Karl Shapiro -- Shylock in New York / Leonard Nathan -- Shylock / Fiona Pitt-Kethley -- Other rewritings and appropriations
- Isbn
- 9780393925296
- Label
- The merchant of Venice : authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations
- Title
- The merchant of Venice
- Title remainder
- authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations
- Statement of responsibility
- William Shakespeare ; edited by Leah S. Marcus
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Presents Shakespeare's comedy about a creditor demanding a pound of flesh in payment of a defaulted debt and a love who must choose among three caskets in a riddle game to win the hand of a wealthy lady. This Norton Critical Edition includes the full text of the play, plus a "Sources and Context" section that gives special attention to the character of Shylock and the issue of the play's anti-Semitism, the "Criticism" section which collects twenty-one essays of wide-ranging interpretations on various issues including anti-Semitism, postcolonial and race studies, feminist and queer theory, and economic and social organization. Finally, included are a selection of poems, mainly from the 20th century, on the character of Shylock
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1564-1616
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shakespeare, William
- Dewey number
- 822.3/3
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR2825.A2
- LC item number
- M36 2005
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Marcus, Leah S.
- Series statement
- A Norton critical edition
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- Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare, William
- Shylock (Fictitious character)
- Moneylenders
- Jews
- Venice (Italy)
- Label
- The merchant of Venice : authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations, William Shakespeare ; edited by Leah S. Marcus
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-347)
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- Contents
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- Sources and contexts: The tale of the three caskets from the Gesta Romanorum / R. Robinson -- The Merchant of Venice / G. Fiorentino -- Ballad of a cruel Jew / Anonymous -- The true meaning of friendship / Sir Thomas Elyot -- Duties of husband and wife / Edwin Sandys -- The Merchant: a sermon preached at Paul's cross / Daniel Price -- Description of Venice / Thomas Coryat -- The case of Doctor Lopez / William Camden -- Causes of the miseries of the Jews / Thomas Calvert -- Judaizing Christians in the 1590s / Peter Heylyn -- Parliamentary debate on usury, April 19, 1571 / Sir Simonds D'Ewes -- An apology for the honorable nation of the Jews / Edward Nicholas
- Criticism: Remarks on 'The Merchant of Venice' / Nicholas Rowe -- The Merchant of Venice / William Hazlitt -- Portia / Anna Jameson -- Jessica and Portia / Heinrich Heine -- The theme of the three caskets / Sigmund Freud -- The music of 'The Merchant of Venice' / G. Wilson Knight -- Biblical allusion and allegory in 'The Merchant of Venice' / Barbara K. Lewalski -- Platonic doctrine and the music of Act 5 / Lawrence Danson -- Shylock and the idea of the Jew / Derek Cohen -- Wilhelm S and Shylock / Laurence Lerner -- Edmund Kean as Shylock / Toby Lelyveld -- Circumcision and the "Pound of flesh" / James Shapiro -- Shylocks in Shakespeare's England / Stephen Orgel -- The Shakespeares as money-lenders / Charles Edelman -- 'The Merchant of Venice' and protocapitalism / Walter Cohen -- Portia's ring: Unruly women and structures of exchange in 'The Merchant of Venice' / Karen Newman -- How to read 'The Merchant of Venice' without being heterosexist / Alan Sinfield -- Racism and homophobia in 'The Merchant of Venice' / James O'Rourke -- Guess who's coming to dinner? Colonization and miscegenation in 'The Merchant of Venice' / Kim F. Hall -- "Mislike me not for my complexion": Whose mislike? Portia's? Shakespeare's or that of his age? / R. W. Desai -- 'The Merchant of Venice' in Israel / Avraham Oz
- Rewritings and Appropriations: Prologue for a revival of 'The Merchant of Venice' at the time of the Parliamentary Bill for Naturalizing the Jews / John Cunningham -- Shylock / Iain Crichton Smith -- Shylock the writer / Alan Sillitoe -- Shylock / Karl Shapiro -- Shylock in New York / Leonard Nathan -- Shylock / Fiona Pitt-Kethley -- Other rewritings and appropriations
- Control code
- ocm61285752
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 347 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393925296
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2005053425
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- unmediated
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- Other physical details
- illustrations
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- 1082345
- (Sirsi) o61285752
- (OCoLC)61285752
- Label
- The merchant of Venice : authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations, William Shakespeare ; edited by Leah S. Marcus
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-347)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
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- Sources and contexts: The tale of the three caskets from the Gesta Romanorum / R. Robinson -- The Merchant of Venice / G. Fiorentino -- Ballad of a cruel Jew / Anonymous -- The true meaning of friendship / Sir Thomas Elyot -- Duties of husband and wife / Edwin Sandys -- The Merchant: a sermon preached at Paul's cross / Daniel Price -- Description of Venice / Thomas Coryat -- The case of Doctor Lopez / William Camden -- Causes of the miseries of the Jews / Thomas Calvert -- Judaizing Christians in the 1590s / Peter Heylyn -- Parliamentary debate on usury, April 19, 1571 / Sir Simonds D'Ewes -- An apology for the honorable nation of the Jews / Edward Nicholas
- Criticism: Remarks on 'The Merchant of Venice' / Nicholas Rowe -- The Merchant of Venice / William Hazlitt -- Portia / Anna Jameson -- Jessica and Portia / Heinrich Heine -- The theme of the three caskets / Sigmund Freud -- The music of 'The Merchant of Venice' / G. Wilson Knight -- Biblical allusion and allegory in 'The Merchant of Venice' / Barbara K. Lewalski -- Platonic doctrine and the music of Act 5 / Lawrence Danson -- Shylock and the idea of the Jew / Derek Cohen -- Wilhelm S and Shylock / Laurence Lerner -- Edmund Kean as Shylock / Toby Lelyveld -- Circumcision and the "Pound of flesh" / James Shapiro -- Shylocks in Shakespeare's England / Stephen Orgel -- The Shakespeares as money-lenders / Charles Edelman -- 'The Merchant of Venice' and protocapitalism / Walter Cohen -- Portia's ring: Unruly women and structures of exchange in 'The Merchant of Venice' / Karen Newman -- How to read 'The Merchant of Venice' without being heterosexist / Alan Sinfield -- Racism and homophobia in 'The Merchant of Venice' / James O'Rourke -- Guess who's coming to dinner? Colonization and miscegenation in 'The Merchant of Venice' / Kim F. Hall -- "Mislike me not for my complexion": Whose mislike? Portia's? Shakespeare's or that of his age? / R. W. Desai -- 'The Merchant of Venice' in Israel / Avraham Oz
- Rewritings and Appropriations: Prologue for a revival of 'The Merchant of Venice' at the time of the Parliamentary Bill for Naturalizing the Jews / John Cunningham -- Shylock / Iain Crichton Smith -- Shylock the writer / Alan Sillitoe -- Shylock / Karl Shapiro -- Shylock in New York / Leonard Nathan -- Shylock / Fiona Pitt-Kethley -- Other rewritings and appropriations
- Control code
- ocm61285752
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 347 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393925296
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2005053425
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- 1082345
- (Sirsi) o61285752
- (OCoLC)61285752
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