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From stereotype to metaphor : the Jew in contemporary drama / Ellen Schiff.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schiff, Ellen, 1932-
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
- SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Jews in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1982.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Who is a Jew? What is a Jew? In this all-encompassing study, Dr. Schiff probes these questions to help explain the prominence of Jewish characters in drama since World War II. The Jew has evolved into one of the most popular personages on the contemporary stage.Dramatists, both Jew and Gentile, in the United States and Europe, have been mining recently introduced concepts of the Jew to create a highly diversified and unfamiliar breed of dramatis personae. From Stereotype to Metaphor tracks the evolution of the Jewish persona on the stage. From the debut of the Jew on the Western stage in the Middle Ages to the present century, Dr. Schiff investigates how the Jew has evolved from the stereotypical figures of biblical patriarchs, moneymen and villains into latter-day everyman. This book traces the line of descent of the stage Jew from church drama, Shakespeare, Milton, and Racine to modern playwrights, including Miller, Gibson, Pinter, Wesker, Anouilh, Grumberg, and Woody Allen, concentrating on the development of the stage Jew since 1945.
- Contents:
- ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Tradition of the Stage Jew""; ""Content""; ""PART ONE: Updating Traditions""; ""Modern Heroes of Biblical Drama""; ""Myths and Stock Types""; ""The Jew as Other""; ""The Jew in a Jewish World""; ""PART TWO: The New Jew""; ""The Jew and Other Outsiders""; ""Crises of Conscience and of Consciousness""; ""The Jew as Metaphor""; ""Conclusion""; ""Back Matter""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-1894-9
- OCLC:
- 794701301
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