This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play.

The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a modern audience. The characters, Portia and Shylock, are examined in fascinating detail. With in-depth analyses of the text, the play in performance and individual characters, this book promises to be the essential resource on the play for all Shakespeare enthusiasts.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2013

ISBN

9781136017667

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover
Halftitle
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
General Editor’s Introduction
The Fortunes of the Merchant of Venice from 1596 to 2001
Shakespeare’s Merchant and Marlowe’s Other Play
Jewish Daughters: The Question of Philo-Semitism in Elizabethan Drama
Jessica
Textual Deviancy in the Merchant of Venice
Portia and the Ovidian Grotesque
Does Source Criticism Illuminate the Problems of Interpreting The Merchant as a Soured Comedy?
Shylock is Content: A Study in Salvation
Isolation to Communion: A Reading of the Merchant of Venice
The Less into the Greater: Emblem, Analogue, and Deification in the Merchant of Venice
“Nerissa Teaches me What to Believe”: Portia’s Wifely Empowerment in the Merchant of Venice
“Mislike me not for my Complexion”: Whose Mislike? Portia’s? Shakespeare’s? Or that of his Age?
The Merchant of Venice and the Politics of Commerce
Names in the Merchant of Venice
Singing Chords: Performing Shylock and Other Characters in the Merchant of Venice
Making the Merchant of Venice Palatable for U.S. Audiences
Shylock in Performance
Portia Performs: Playing the Role in the Twentieth-Century English Theater
Notes on the Contributors