ISBN10: 0820457981, ISBN13: 9780820457987, [publisher: Peter Lang] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In this book, the German history of The Merchant of Venice highlights the Central European detour that Shakespearean reception underwent in Hebrew and Yiddish. Such a detour, with its various discomforts, is used to penetrate a current historical and political historiography, rendering Shylock a character that remembers various languages and locations, as well as multiple alternatives for political self-definition. This complex Shakespearean character speaks in many voices and for various purposes and is the only character that can provide the missing link between two contradictory Jewish stereotypes - a persecuted and victimized underling and a merciless and violent plaintive, holding out his knife to draw blood.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2003]
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