TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shapiro,James
TI  - Shakespeare and the Jews /James Shapiro
SN  - 9780231541879
AV  - PR2825 .S535 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Shylock
KW  - Jews
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Judaism in literature
KW  - Jews in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 1. False Jews and Counterfeit Christians --; 2. Myths, Histories, Consequences --; 3. The Jewish Crime --; 4. "The Pound of Flesh" --; 5. The Hebrew Will Turn Christian --; 6. Race, Nation, or Alien? --; 7. Shakespeare and the Jew Bill of 1753; 2; b
N2  - James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's day. From accounts of Christians masquerading as Jews to fantasies of settling foreign Jews in Ireland, Shapiro's work delves deeply into the cultural insecurities of Elizabethans while illuminating Shakespeare's portrayal of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. In a new preface, Shapiro reflects upon what he failed to understand about intolerance since the first publication.--
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