Publication

1997 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland

Language

English

Word Count

52,500 words, Guess

Page Count

210 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing5092347
  • Goodreads1759705

Classifications

  • DDC822.3/3
  • LCCPR2825 .Y34 1997

Description

In Shylock and the Jewish Question, Yaffe challenges the widespread assumption that Shakespeare is, in the final analysis, unfriendly to Jews. Emphasizing that The Merchant of Venice is a work of political philosophy as well as literature, Yaffe raises the intriguing possibility that Shakespeare presents Shylock not as a typical Jew, but as a bad one. He finds that Shakespeare's consideration of Judaism in The Merchant of Venice provides an important contrast to Marlowe's virulent The Jew of Malta.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Johns Hopkins Jewish studies

Other Editions

  • Shylock and the Jewish questionJohns Hopkins University Press1997-01-01

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