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The Merchant of Venice: Texts and Contexts (Bedford Shakespeare Series)

by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice: Texts and Contexts (Bedford Shakespeare Series) Cover

ISBN13: 9780312256241
ISBN10: 0312256248
Condition: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

This edition of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts include maps, woodcuts, sermons, statutes, early modern documents reflecting Christian attitudes toward Jews and Jewish reactions to these attitudes, excerpts from the Bible on money lending as well as contemporary discourses on usury and commerce, and excerpts from the first account of Jewish life written in the vernacular by a Jew for a Christian audience. The documents contextualize contemporary discourses on race, nationality, and religion; the place of Venice in the early modern English imagination; merchant culture; and marriage, sexuality, and friendship in the period.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780312256241
Subtitle:
Texts and Contexts
Author:
Kaplan, M. Lindsay
Editor:
Kaplan, M. Lindsay
Author:
Kaplan
Publisher:
Bedford Books
Location:
Boston
Subject:
Shakespeare
Subject:
Jews
Subject:
Venice
Subject:
Shylock
Subject:
Moneylenders
Subject:
History
Subject:
Jews -- History.
Subject:
Venice (Italy)
Edition Description:
First
Series:
Bedford Shakespeare Series
Series Volume:
11751
Publication Date:
March 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
377
Dimensions:
8.10x5.40x.60 in. .85 lbs.

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