Shylock feeds anti-Semitism in a way that, say, Barabas in Marlowe’s Jew of Malta does not, because Barabas’s wickedness has a cartoonish quality: “I walk abroad a-nights and kill sick ... We pay a price for what we gain from Shakespeare”...
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Shylock is a fictional character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice . In The Merchant of Venice , Shylock is a Jewish moneylender who lends money to his Christian rival, Antonio, setting the...
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The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects...
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at Shakespeare and the way he wrote his Shylock." There are scholars who also espouse this belief. In his book Shakespeare's Jew, H. B. Charlton asserts that Shakespeare was anti-Semitic because of his portrayal of Shylock as a Jewish moneylender.
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But who are they to talk about blasphemy? In the context of the Shakespearian canon the above instances are minor; without Shylock the question of Shakespeare's antisemitism might never have arisen.
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Shakespeare and Shylock; William Shakespeare, being a man of the theatre, would have been heavily influenced not only by history, but also by the theatre that had preceded him. He was also an exceptionally good businessman with a keen sense of what his audience wanted.
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"Shylock in Germany: Antisemitism and the German Theatre from the Enlightenment to the Nazis (review)." Shakespeare Quarterly 60, no. ...
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Shylock and Antisemitism ... Grant Stirling's site Shakespeare and Antisemitism: The Question of Shylock puts many of these issues into perspective. ... Discusses Jewish jokes, Shakespeare's Shylock, the "angry Jehovah," Jews and money, Scribes and Pharisees, "Are Jews a race?" And much, much more --
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The Figure of Shylock and Shakespeare's Ambivalences ... Shylock, on the other hand, is very different. His character, his actions and his vicissitudes disquiet and excite us all the time. So much does his figure stand out amidst the cheerful and shallow young Venetian aristocrats who surround him that his gigantic...
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