Shylock, the Roman: Unmasking Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1584450665 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 212 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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More importantly, new productions of The Merchant of Venice will have to cast movie action heroes in the leading role of Shylock, the Roman.. It begins with a radically counter-intuitive approach: seeing Shylock -- the classic anti-Jewish stereotype -- in terms of ancient Roman honor and ancient Roman comedy instead of the customary Christian/Jewish moral issues.Beginning with a narrow focus on a single literary document that is one of our culture's seminal influences, Shylock, the Roman methodically drills deeply into several of Shakespeare's plays, ultimately achieving a breadth of vision that explains in short order a great deal about the logic of Shakespeare's artistry and the point of view of Shakespeare as a dramatist.This book will stimulate furious debate among scholars and critics. It's also the most controversial attempt ever made to resolve one of the most emotionally-charged issues in Shakespeare criticism: the question of a
Startling Until this book I had practically no familiarity with Shakespeare at all, much less with the Merchant of Venice. So reading Merchant for me was reading it with a fresh eye. The whole thing struck me as a wonderful mystery with twists and turns not unlike an Escher drawing. Truth is I couldn't appreciate the old literary controversy about anti-Semitism in the characterization of Shylock -- I had never heard of Shylock. All I knew, while I was reading the book, was that a mys. Ray E. Smith, Jr. said Finally - an explanation of Merchant of Venice that makes sense. I was very confused after the first time I read and watched The Merchant of Venice. I strongly sympathized with Shylock, but I was unsure whether Shakespeare intended for the Jew to be the hero. Reading some of the mainstream criticism was no help - the critics seemed to be even more clueless than I. But now, after reading Shylock the Roman, I wonder why I had previously been so oblivious to the obvious. Thanks to Robert Schneider's Shylock the Jew, I finally understand the. All wrong Florence Amit The author has one very good idea and that is that Shylock is masked. But all of his conclusions are the result of a dominant culture reading. They are superficial. I would not recommend this book for a deep understanding of the subject.