Wrestling with Shylock : Jewish responses to The Merchant of Venice

Wrestling with Shylock : Jewish responses to The Merchant of Venice /

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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Nahshon, Edna (Editor), Shapiro, Michael, 1938- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Merchant of Venice.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Shylock.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Jews.
Shylock > (Fictitious character)
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, William)
Jews in literature.
Antisemitism in literature.
Characters and characteristics.
Jews.
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Table of Contents:
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  • Preface Edna Nahshon
  • Part I. Introductions
  • 1. Literary sources and theatrical interpretations of Shylock Michael Shapiro
  • 2. The anti-Shylock campaign in America Edna Nahshon
  • Part II. Discourses
  • 3. Shylock in German-Jewish historiography Abigail Gillman
  • 4. Yiddish Shylocks in theater and literature Nina Warnke and Jeffrey Shandler
  • 5. Lawyers and judges address Shylock's case Richard H. Weisberg
  • Part III. The Stage
  • 6. David Belasco's 1922 production of The Merchant of Venice Marc Hodin
  • 7. New York City, 1947
  • a season for Shylocks Edna Nahshon
  • 8. The Merchant of Venice in mandatory Palestine and the state of Israel Shelley Zer-Zion
  • 9. Fritz Kortner and other German-Jewish Shylocks before and after the Holocaust Jeanette Malkin
  • 10. Evoking the Holocaust in George Tabori's productions of The Merchant of Venice Sabine Schulting
  • 11. The Merchant of Venice on the German stage and the 1995 'Buchenwald' production in Weimar Gad Kaynar-Kissinger
  • 12. Recasting Shakespeare's Jew in Wesker's Shylock Efraim Sicher
  • 13. Jewish directors and Jewish Shylocks in twentieth-century England Miriam Gilbert
  • Part IV. Literature, Art and Music
  • 14. Zionism in Ludwig Lewisohn's novel, The Last Days of Shylock Michael Shapiro
  • 15. Jessica's Jewish identity in contemporary feminist novels Michelle Ephraim
  • 16. Christian iconography and Jewish accommodation in Maurycy Gottlieb's painting, 'Shylock and Jessica' Susan Chevlowe
  • 17. Shylock in opera, 1871-2014 Judah M. Cohen
  • Part V. Postscript
  • 18. Shylock and the Arab-Israel conflict Edna Nahshon
  • Index.

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