Bibliograph

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, William Shakespeare ; edited by Leah S. Marcus

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-347)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

dramas

Main title

The merchant of Venice

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

62132606

Responsibility statement

William Shakespeare ; edited by Leah S. Marcus

Series statement

A Norton critical edition

Sub title

authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations

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

Table Of 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

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