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The Resource The merchant of Venice : authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations, William Shakespeare ; edited by Leah S. Marcus

The merchant of Venice : authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations, William Shakespeare ; edited by Leah S. Marcus

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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
Creator
Contributor
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Genre
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
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UKM
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1564-1616,
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Shakespeare, William
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
dramas
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Marcus, Leah S.
Series statement
A Norton critical edition
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  • Shylock
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Moneylenders
  • Jews
  • Venice (Italy)
  • Jews
  • Shylock
  • Jews
  • Moneylenders
  • Italy
  • Italy
Label
The merchant of Venice : authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations, William Shakespeare ; edited by Leah S. Marcus
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-347)
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Preface -- The text of The merchant of Venice. The comical history of the Merchant of Venice ; A note on the text -- Sources and contexts. [The tale of the three caskets from the Gesta Romanorum] / Richard Robinson ; [The merchant of Venice] / Ser Giovanni 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 / Mrs. 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 proto-capitalism] / 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 Natan ; Shylock / Fiona Pitt-Kethley ; Other rewritings and appropriations
Control code
62132606
Dimensions
21 cm
Edition
First edition
Extent
xiii, 347 pages
Isbn
9780393925296
Lccn
2005053425
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
9780393925296
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)62132606
Label
The merchant of Venice : authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations, William Shakespeare ; edited by Leah S. Marcus
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-347)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Preface -- The text of The merchant of Venice. The comical history of the Merchant of Venice ; A note on the text -- Sources and contexts. [The tale of the three caskets from the Gesta Romanorum] / Richard Robinson ; [The merchant of Venice] / Ser Giovanni 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 / Mrs. 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 proto-capitalism] / 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 Natan ; Shylock / Fiona Pitt-Kethley ; Other rewritings and appropriations
Control code
62132606
Dimensions
21 cm
Edition
First edition
Extent
xiii, 347 pages
Isbn
9780393925296
Lccn
2005053425
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
9780393925296
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)62132606

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