| Shakespeare and the Jews Revised Edition Contributor(s): Shapiro, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 023110345X ISBN-13: 9780231103459 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $37.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1997 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish questions in early modern England, James Shapiro shows how Elizabethans imagined Jews to be utterly different from themselves - in religion, race, nationality, and even sexuality. From strange cases of Christians masquerading as Jews to bizarre proposals to settle foreign Jews in Ireland, Shakespeare and the Jews looks into the crisis of cultural identity in that post-Reformation world. Even as Shakespeare has come to embody Englishness itself, The Merchant of Venice, with its exploration of Jewish criminality, conversion, race, alien status, and national identity, now stands at the crossroads of cultural exclusion and cultural longing. In this formidably researched new book, Shapiro sheds fascinating light on the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and opens new questions about culture and identity in Elizabethan England. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare - History |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 95023260 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.01" W x 8.99" (1.08 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish questions in early modern England, James Shapiro presents how Elizabethans imagined Jews to be utterly different from themselves----in religion, race, nationality, and even sexuality. From strange cases of Christians masquerading as Jews to bizarre proposals to settle foreign Jews in Ireland, this book looks into the crisis of cultural identity in Elizabethan England and sheds new light on "The Merchant of Venice." |