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| #823224 in Books | imusti | 1997-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.99 x.85 x6.01l,1.08 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | Columbia University Press||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| scholarly discussion|By Pat McKnight|Thoughtful, scholarly discussion of important European history relating to the long history of Jews before and after "The Merchant of Venice.by a prominent Shakespearean. Prof. Shapiro discusses the marginal status of Jews in Christian Europe. His discussion is not limited to Elizabethan England, but places his topic in the larger context.|.com |The Merchant of Venice has long been a problem play for lovers of Shakespeare. How could the greatest playwright in English, renowned for his depth of humanity, create a crude anti-Semitic stereotype like Shylock? The problem has been approached in
Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish questions in early modern England, James Shapiro presents how Elizabethans imagined Jews to be utterly different from themselves––in religion, race, nationality, and even sexuality. From strange cases of Christians masquerading as Jews to bizarre proposals to settle foreign Jews in Ireland, this book looks into the crisis of cultural identity in Eli...
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