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## A detailed exploration of the significance of Hebrew Biblical stories in __The Merchant of Venice__ What happens when we consider Shakespeare’s __The Merchant of Venice__ as a play with ‘real’ Jewish characters who are not mere ciphers for anti-Semitic Elizabethan stereotypes? __Is Shylock Jewish?__ studies Shakespeare’s extensive use of stories from the Hebrew Bible in __The Merchant of Venice__, and argues that Shylock and his daughter Jessica draw on recognizably Jewish ways of engaging with those narratives throughout the play. By examining the legacy of Jewish exegesis and cultural lore surrounding these biblical episodes, this book traces the complexity and richness of Merchant’s Jewish aspect, spanning encounters with Jews and the Hebrew Bible in the early modern world as well as modern adaptations of Shakespeare’s play on the Yiddish stage. ## Key Features * Analyses alternative contexts for the moral agency of Jewish characters in __The Merchant of Venice__ * Provides an innovative study of Renaissance Christian Hebraism in England and English perceptions of Jews and Jewishness in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries * Discusses important nineteenth- and twenti

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Author

Sara Coodin

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474418386

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Drama, Literary Fiction, Humanities