Shakespeare and the Jews - Rilegato

Shapiro, James

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0231103441 ISBN 13: 9780231103442

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish questions in early modern England, James Shapiro shows how Elizabethans imagined Jews to be utterly different from themselves - in religion, race, nationality, and even sexuality. From strange cases of Christians masquerading as Jews to bizarre proposals to settle foreign Jews in Ireland, Shakespeare and the Jews looks into the crisis of cultural identity in that post-Reformation world.
Even as Shakespeare has come to embody Englishness itself, The Merchant of Venice, with its exploration of Jewish criminality, conversion, race, alien status, and national identity, now stands at the crossroads of cultural exclusion and cultural longing. In this formidably researched new book, Shapiro sheds fascinating light on the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and opens new questions about culture and identity in Elizabethan England.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

James Shapiro is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Product Description:

Book by Shapiro James

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0231103441
• ISBN 13: 9780231103442
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 317