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This collection of essays is aimed at students who are working on The Merchant of Venice and who are looking for new ways of thinking about the play and new ways of thinking about their own practice as critics. The collection offers a spectrum of the more recent writings on the play, that open up its historical, cultural and political significance and serve to demonstrate some of the ways in which contemporary criticism is not only based upon critical theory but is also about the practice of criticism. This is a strong collection of essays about Shakespeare''s most controversial play.>
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
General Editor's Preface
Introduction; M.Coyle
Comedy and The Merchant of Venice; G.Holderness
Re-reading The Merchant of Venice; K.Ryan
The Merchant of Venice and the Possibilities of Historical Criticism; W.Cohen
Shakespeare and the Jews; J.Shapiro
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Colonization and Miscegenation in The Merchant of Venice; K.F.Hall
Portia's Ring: Unruly Women and the Structures of Exchange in The Merchant of Venice; K.Newman
Love in Venice; C.Belsey
How to Read The Merchant of Venice Without Being Heterosexist; A.Sinfield
Historical Differences and Venetian Patriarchy; J.Drakakis
Transformations of Authenticity: The Merchant of Venice in Israel; A.Oz
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
MARTIN COYLE is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
