Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy Paperback - 1994
by John Gross; Preface by John Gross
Shylock, the cunning moneylender in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, is one of the great familiar figures of the world of drama. He is also one of the most controversial characters ever conceived. Photos.
First line
Shylock has a long ancestry, and a short one.
From the rear cover
Never has one character of the stage provoked such controversy or achieved such infamy as Shakespeare's enigmatic Shylock. For four centuries the money lender of "The Merchant of Venice" has been reinvented as both villain and victim, as an object of tragedy and comedy, and has been used as an economic symbol and often as a lightning rod for anti-Semitism. But what was Shakespeare's attitude toward the character described on the play's title page in 1600 as "a man of extreme crueltie", and what should be our own? With brilliant historical perspective and insight, theater critic John Gross explores the complex and influential history that has given Shylock a life beyond the play and established him as a figure of world mythology. Illuminating Shylock's evolution on the stage, his importance to writers and psychologists, and his enduring influence on society and culture, John Gross sheds as much light on our own shifting attitudes and beliefs as on the rich and disquieting figure Shakespeare created.
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- Title Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy
- Author John Gross; Preface by John Gross
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Paperback
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Touchstone Books, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1994-01-19
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780671883867 / 0671883860
- Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.54 x 1.01 in (21.64 x 14.07 x 2.57 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92035672
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.33
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 12/20/1993, Page 0
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