The Merchant of Venice: The State of Play

ISBN-13: 9781350110229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

M. Lindsay Kaplan; Ann Thompson; Lena Cowen Orlin

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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Recent Trends in Merchant of Venice Criticism, M. Lindsay Kaplan (Georgetown University, US) Chapter One: ‘Lend it rather to thine enemy’: Accentuating Difference in The Merchant of Venice, Miriam Gilbert(University of Iowa, US) Chapter Two: Dangerous Border Crossings: Nicolas Stemann's Merchant in Munich, Benjamin Fowler (University of Sussex, UK) Chapter Three: Thomas Jordan's 'The Forfeiture', A Mercantilist Rewriting of Shakespeare, Katherine Romack (University of West Florida, US) Chapter Four: Jessica, Women’s Activism, and Maurice Schwartz’s 1947 Shayloks Tochter, Sara Coodin (University of Oklahoma, US) Chapter Five:'Wooly Breeders': Animal Generation and Economies of Knowledge in The Merchant of Venice, James Kearney (University of California, Santa Barbara, US) Chapter Six:'The means whereby I live’: Deep Play in The Merchant of Venice Jeanette Nguyen Tran, (Drake University, US) Chapter Seven:‘Qualities of Breeding’: Race, Class, and Conduct in The Merchant of Venice, Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University – Newark, US) Chapter Eight:Jessica, Sarra and Ruth: Three Jewish Women Confronting Shylock, Shaul Bassi, (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy) Chapter Nine:‘Tainted wether of the flock’: Repurposing Fiorentino’s Doting Godfather in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice,” Thomas Cartelli, Professor of English & Film Studies (Muhlenberg College, US) Chapter Ten:'Epistemology of the Early Modern Closet, or, The Merchant of Venice Unlockt,' A. Eliza Greenstadt, (Portland State University, US) Notes References Index