New Cambridge Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice
Author(s): William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice has been performed more often than any other comedy by Shakespeare. Molly Mahood pays special attention to the expectations of the play s first audience, and to our modern experience of seeing and hearing the play. In a substantial new addition to the Introduction, Charles Edelman focuses on the play s sexual politics and recent scholarship devoted to the position of Jews in Shakespeare s time. He surveys the international scope and diversity of theatrical interpretations of The Merchant in the 1980s and 1990s and their different ways of tackling the troubling figure of Shylock.
Product Information
The introduction and commentary reveal an author with a lively awareness of the importance of perceiving the play as a theatrical document, one which comes to life, which is completed only in performance. The Review of English Studies
Introduction, with new section on recent critical and stage interpretations by Charles Edelman; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Supplementary note; Textual analysis; Appendix: Shakespeare's use of the Bible in The Merchant of Venice; Reading list.
General Fields
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- : Cambridge University Press
- : Cambridge University Press
- : 0.352
- : 31 March 2003
- : 228mm X 152mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 August 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : William Shakespeare
- : Paperback
- : 2nd Revised edition
- : 822.33
- : 216
- : 16 b/w illus.
