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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Shylock"”.
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Post-Shoah Shylocks: adapting 'The Merchant of Venice' for twentieth and twenty-first century audiences
… been written on the play’s anti-Semitism, Shylock, and various individual productions, an in-depth global study of the Holocaust’s impact on performance remains untouched. This research, then, traces how perceptions of Jewish identity have changed since the Holocaust, and how these changes …
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“I Stand for Sovereignty”: Reading Portia in Shakespeare’s <em>The Merchant of Venice</em>
… between her merchant class and her aristocracy. Shylock serves as a representation of a generic or perhaps Catholic threat to England during the early modern era. Moreover, by examining Portia's language in the trial scene, the play invites audiences to read her as a representative of the learned …
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Der Jude nach der Shoah : zur Rezeption des Kaufmann von Venedig auf dem Theater der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik 1945-1989
… kann man in dem Konflikt zwischen dem Juden Shylock und dem christlichen Kaufmann Antonio das theatralische Spiegelbild für die gesellschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Fremden als Außenseiter im Allgemeinen und mit der jüdischen Minderheit in einer christlich geprägten Gesellschaft im …
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Interrogation of Conscience and Audience in Shakespeare's Early Plays
… Portia’s grotesque courtroom interrogation of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, discussed in Chapter Five, raises questions about the process of interrogation. Chapter Six explores Hamlet, a play comprised almost entirely of interrogation scenes, focusing on the mousetrap scene and on Hamlet’s …
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Ethics in translation : an exploration through art, dramatization, literary and political texts
… consequences. One such case is the story of Shylock, initially a translated character, who gained mythical notoriety through dissemination in translation in many cultures. Other examples involve other historical, mainly anti-Semitic icons whose integration into public consciousness owed its …
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Dear Son of Memory: Milton's Engagement with Shakespeare
… angry male interpreters of the law like Angelo, Shylock, and Leontes. By recalling these Shakespearean antecedents, Milton aims to suggest the specious nature of Samson’s heroism and emphasize the need for mercy and forgiveness.</p>