Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy
by John Gross
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 070113996X
- ISBN 13
- 9780701139964
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NY: Simon & Schuster. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, A sociological look at the influence of Shakespeare's Shylock on world mythology describes the character's creation and his evolution on the stage, and presents writing about him by Proust, James, T. S. Eliot, and others. Amazingly, Shylock is in only five scenes in the Merchant of Venice. Yet, as pointed out by Gross, the theater critic for the London Sunday Telegraph , his impact and significance transcend his physical presence, so much so that his name and "pound of flesh" idea are almost universally known. In the first part of this character/cultural study, Gross examines the antecedents of Shylock and the play, and his development within the play. The second part considers "interpretations" both theatrical and literary in England and America until World War II; the third part considers Shylock more broadly as a touchstone (e.g., how his "type" is used by the Victorians--Trollope's Lopez, Dickens's Riah, Ruskin's use of him in Munera Pulveris ). Clean copy. Record # 385503
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 385503
- Title
- Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy
- Author
- John Gross
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 070113996X
- ISBN 13
- 9780701139964
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- This edition first published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Literature, Criticism, , .
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- Literature;
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