Synopses & Reviews
This collection of essays is aimed at readers who are looking for new ways of thinking about Shakespeare's most controversial play and new ways of thinking about their own practice as critics. The collection offers a spectrum of the more recent writings on the play that opens up its historical, cultural, and political significance and also serves to demonstrate some of the ways in which contemporary criticism is both based upon critical theory and is also about the practice of criticism.
Synopsis
This collection of essays is aimed at readers who are looking for new ways of thinking about Shakespeare's most controversial play and new ways of thinking about their own practice as critics. The collection offers a spectrum of the more recent writings on the play that opens up its historical, cultural, and political significance and also serves to demonstrate some of the ways in which contemporary criticism is both based upon critical theory and is also about the practice of criticism.
Synopsis
This collection of essays is aimed at readers who are looking for new ways of thinking about Shakespeare's most controversial play and new ways of thinking about their own practice as critics.
About the Author
Martin Coyle is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
Table of Contents
Introduction--Martin Coyle * Comedy and
The Merchant of Venice --Graham Holderness * Re-Reading
The Merchant of Venice --Kiernan Ryan *
The Merchant of Venice and the Possibilities of Historical Criticism--Walter Cohen * Shakespeare and the Jews--James Shapiro * Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Colonization and Miscegenation in
The Merchant of Venice --Kim F. Hall * Portia's Ring: Unruly Women and Structures of Exchange in
The Merchant of Venice --Karen Newman * Love in Venice--Catherine Belsey * How to Read
The Merchant of Venice without being Heterosexist--Alan Sinfield * Historical Difference and Venetian Patriarchy--John Drakakis * Transformations of Authenticity:
The Merchant of Venice in Israel--Avraham Oz * Index