The merchant of Venice. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by William Baker and Brian Vickers.
• Other Names: Baker, William, 1944-; Vickers, Brian
• Contents: Georg Lichtenberg, on Macklin's Shylock, 1775. -- Richard Hole, an 'apology' for Shylock, 1796. -- August Wilhelm Von Schlegel, 'one of Shakespeare's most perfect works', 1815. -- William Hazlitt, Kean's debut as Shylock, 1816. -- William Hazlitt, sympathy for Shylock, but not for Portia, 1817. -- Augustine Skottowe, the major sources, 1824. -- George Farren, in defence of Shylock, 1833. -- Anna Brownell Jameson, Portia, 1833. -- Thomas Campbell, Shylock 'ill-used', 1838. -- Heinrich Heine, Shakespeare justifies 'an unfortunate race', 1838. -- Hermann Ulrici, summa jus summa injuria, 1839. -- Charles Knight, lessons of charity, 1849. -- George Henry Lewes, Shylock's humanity, 1850. -- Henry Norman Hudson, Shakespeare's evenhandedness, 1851. -- James O. Halliwell-Phillipps, human rights and religious belief, 1856. -- William Watkiss Lloyd, sympathetic liberality versus murderous avarice, 1856. -- Henrietta Palmer, in praise of Portia, 1859. -- Friedrich Kreyssig, 'a just estimate of things', 1862. -- Charles Cowden Clarke, Shakespeare's love of justice, 1863. -- Georg G. Gervinus, 'the relation of man to property', 1863. -- John Ruskin, Shylock 'the corrupted merchant', 1873. -- James Spedding, Portia the central character, 1875. -- Frederick James Furnivall, Shylock 'the hero of the piece', 1877. -- Denton Jaques Snider, a Hegelian reading, 1877. -- Frederick William Hawkins, a plea for toleration, 1879. -- Henry Irving, Shylock: an actor's view, 1879. -- Frederick James Furnivall, not a doctrinal play, 1879. -- James Spedding, 'not about Jewish grievances', 1879. -- Israel Davis, Shylock's 'nobility and distinction', 1879. -- David Anderson, Shylock 'a product of history', 1879. -- Oscar Wilde, a sonnet to Portia, 1879. -- Sidney Lee, 'the Lopez case' and Shakespeare's Jew, 1880. Henry James, a critique of Irving and Terry, 1881. -- Charles Kensington Salaman, Shylock from a Jewish point view, 1882. -- Joseph Hatton, an interview with Henry Irving, 1884. -- Richard G. Moulton, Shakespeare's interweaving of plot, 1885. -- Helena Faucit, on acting Portia, 1885. -- M. Leigh-Noel, Portia's womanliness, 1885. -- El Seyonpi, privileged Christian, proscribed Jew, 1885. -- William Poel, staging the play, 1887. -- Edwin Booth, Shylock's 'revengeful selfishness', 1888. -- Francis A. Marshall, 'the first of his [Shakespeare's] great comedies', 1888. -- Sir George Heynes Radford, Shylock's character determined by the plot, 1894. -- Frederick Samuel Boas, Shakespeare's concession to bigotry, 1896. -- Georg Brandes, Shylock 'a monster of passionate hatred, not avarice', 1898. -- A.W. Verity, Shylock and modern criticism, 1898. -- C.H. Herford, 'two communities which meet but never mingle', 1900. -- Stopford A. Brooke, 'some faint sympathy' for Shylock, 1905. -- Charles Knox Pooler, Shylock 'a man of one idea', 1905. -- Otto Jespersen, Shylock's language, 1905. -- Sir Walter Raleigh, Shylock more sinned against than sinning, 1907. -- Theodore Watts-Dunton, 'untrammelled' as against 'plot-ridden' characters, 1907. -- E.K. Chambers, the opposing principles of love and hate, 1908. -- Algernon Swinburne, Shylock less sinned against than sinning, 1909. -- William Poel, Shakespeare's Jew and Marlowe's Christians, 1909. -- E.E. Stoll, Shylock a comic villain, 1911. -- William Winter, Shylock and his interpreters, 1911. -- Sir Israel Gollancz, 'man is what man had made him', 1916. -- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Shakespeare's 'stage-cleverness' and the story's 'monstrous absurdity', 1916. -- Isador Henry Coriat, Shylock's anal-erotic tendencies, 1921. -- Gerald Friedlander, Shylock not an authentic Jew, 1921. -- Levin L. Schücking, Shylock's self-revelation in soliloquy, 1922. -- E.E. Stoll, Shakespeare's intentions and the dynamics of comedy, 1927. -- Andrew Tretiak, the 'alien' question, 1929. -- Harley Granville-Barker, Shakespeare's attention to character and story, 1930. -- Cecil Roth, Shylock the Venetian, 1933. -- Thomas Arthur Ross, Antonio a depressive homosexual, 1934. -- John W. Draper, Shylock a London usurer, 1935. -- Caroline Spurgeon, the distribution of imagery within the play, 1935. -- G. Wilson Knight, the idea of riches, true and false, 1936. -- John Middleton Murry, Shakespeare's 'matter-of-fact fairy tale', 1936. -- H.B. Charlton, the two Shylocks, 1938. -- John Dover Wilson, anti-Semitism, ancient and modern, 1938. -- Mark Van Doren, no hint 'where Shakespeare's sympathies lay', 1939.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Thoemmes Continuum
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (xli, 437 pages)
• Subjects: 822.3/3; Jews in literature; Comedy; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare; DRAMA -- Shakespeare; Comedy; Jews in literature; Literature; Venice (Italy) -- In literature; Italy -- Venice; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847141873; 1847141870
• Related ISBNs: 0826473296
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-428) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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