Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Merchant of Venice
Author: Sylvan Barnet
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 136
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Author: Sylvan Barnet
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 136
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Published: 1970
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ISBN-13: 9780135771488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Horacio Sierra
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013-01-14
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1443845507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last decade has witnessed a spate of high-profile presentations of The Merchant of Venice: the 2004 Michael Radford film, 2010’s New York City “Shakespeare in the Park” production, as well as the play’s Tony Award-nominated 2010-11 Broadway run. Likewise, new scholarly works such as Kenneth Gross’s Shylock is Shakespeare (2006) and Janet Adelman’s Blood Relations (2008) have offered poignant insights into this play. Why has this drama garnered so much attention of late? What else can we learn from this contentious comedy? How else can we read the drama’s characters? Where do studies of The Merchant of Venice go from here? This collection offers readers sundry answers to these questions by showcasing a sampling of ways this culturally arresting play can be read and interpreted. The strength of this monograph lies in the disparate approaches its contributors offer – from a feminist view of Portia and Nerissa’s friendship to psychoanalytic readings of allegories between the play and Shakespeare’s Pericles to a reading of a Manga comic book version of The Merchant of Venice. Each essay is supported by a strong basis in traditional close reading practices. Our collection of scholars then buttresses such work with the theoretical or pedagogical frameworks that reflect their area of expertise. This collection offers readers different critical lenses through which to approach the primary text. Although Shakespeare scholars and graduate students will no doubt appreciate and employ the work of this collection, the primary audience of this anthology is undergraduate students and the professors who work with them. Many budding scholars have had the experience of checking out a monograph from the library and then finding it was a waste of time because the author spends three hundred pages discussing a perspective of which they have no interest. With this collection, students will not only see how multi-faceted interpretations of the play can be but they also are more likely to find essays that appeal to their own research interests.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah Hatchuel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1350082317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: - Essays on the play's critical and performance history - A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play - A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice has often been labelled a 'problem play', and throughout the ages it has been an object of both fascination and repulsion. Without neglecting the socio-political and religious issues that are at the heart of the play, this collection of critical essays invites readers to rediscover the variety of approaches that this multifaceted work calls for, exploring its gender aspects, its rich mythological background, its legal matters and the ways in which it has been adapted to the screen. Essays consider the play in relation to its sources, genre and religion, historical and socio-political context and its critical reception and performance history.
Author: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1438134355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is a richly complicated and, to some, a deeply;disturbing work.
Author: John W. Mahon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1136017585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 1410352579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter N. King
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Variously described by critics as a vindication of romance, a comedy of humors, and a 'poem of escape,' Twelfth Night may well be Shakespeare's crowing achievement among his early comedies. The essays in this book provide a wide-ranging perspective on its delightful but puzzling plot, its masks and conflicts, its relationship to other works in Shakespeare's canon, and the mood and tone of its marvelous language. Including articles by such scholars as Clifford Leech, John Hollander, C.L. Barber, and Joseph H. Summers, this volume offers a fresh appraisal of a play one critic has called 'the most delightful, harmonious and accomplished of Shakespeare's romantic comedies.'" -Publisher.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781557833884
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Applause Books). These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process.