Understanding The merchant of Venice : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents / Jay L. Halio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halio, Jay L.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series 1074-598X

The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series, 1074-598X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice--Sources.

Shakespeare, William.

Shylock (Fictitious character).

Shylock.

Jews in literature.

Comedy.

Physical Description:

xviii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

Summary:

Explores anti-Semitism and other pertinent issues in Shakespeare's most controversial play.

Contents:

1. Literary and Dramatic Analysis 1

2. Venice and Its Treatment of Jews 23

from Laurence Aldersey's Account of Venice (1581) 27

from Coryat's Crudities (1611) / Thomas Coryat 29

from An Itinerary (1617) / Fynes Moryson 35

from Shakespeare's Europe (1617) / Fynes Moryson 37

from The History of Italy (1549) / William Thomas 40

3. Attitudes Toward Jews 47

from "Christ Was Born a Jew" (1523) / Martin Luther 53

from Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 5 (1597) / Richard Hooker 56

from An Enterlude of the Vertuous and Godly Queene Hester (ca. 1522-27) 58

from The Trial of Dr. Roderigo Lopez (1594) 62

from William Camden's History of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (1607-17, 1625) 63

4. Classical and Renaissance Concepts of Male Friendship 69

from De Amicitia (44 B.C.) / Cicero 72

from The Governor (1531) / Sir Thomas Elyot 76

from The Faerie Queene (1596) / Edmund Spenser 81

from "Of Friendship" (ca. 1580) / Michel de Montaigne 84

from "Of Friendship" (1625) / Sir Francis Bacon 87

5. Elizabethan Marriage 93

from The Christian State of Matrimony (1541) / Heinrich Bullinger 99

from Sermons (1585) / Edwin Sandys 102

from A Preparative to Marriage (1591) / Henry Smith 105

6. Usury, Interest, and the Rise of Capitalism 115

from The Geneva Bible (1560) 121

from An Act against Usury (1571) 123

from John Woolley's Speech in Parliament (1571) 125

from A Discourse upon Usury (1572) / Thomas Wilson 126

from Commentaries on the Last Books of Moses (1554) / John Calvin 130

from The Eternal Life (1559) / Yehiel Nissim da Pisa 133

from The Anatomy of Abuses (1583) / Phillip Stubbes 135

7. Contemporary Applications and Interpretation 141

from "Synagogue arson suspects kept 'hit-list' of Sacramento-area Jews" (1999) / Tom Tugend 143

from "Endless Poison" (1999) / Bob Herbert 145

from A Letter by John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York (1999) 148

from "Male Bonding" (1994) / A. Engler Anderson 158

from "The Shylock Within" (1999) / William Triplett 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0313310114

OCLC:

43287689