List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Introduction:
Recent Trends in Merchant of Venice Criticism, M. Lindsay Kaplan
(Georgetown University, US)
Chapter One: ‘Lend it rather to thine enemy’: Accentuating
Difference in The Merchant of Venice, Miriam Gilbert(University of
Iowa, US)
Chapter Two: Dangerous Border Crossings: Nicolas Stemann's Merchant
in Munich,
Benjamin Fowler (University of Sussex, UK)
Chapter Three: Thomas Jordan's 'The Forfeiture', A Mercantilist
Rewriting of Shakespeare, Katherine Romack (University of West
Florida, US)
Chapter Four: Jessica, Women’s Activism, and Maurice Schwartz’s
1947 Shayloks Tochter,
Sara Coodin (University of Oklahoma, US)
Chapter Five:'Wooly Breeders': Animal Generation and Economies of
Knowledge in The Merchant of Venice, James Kearney (University of
California, Santa Barbara, US)
Chapter Six:'The means whereby I live’: Deep Play in The Merchant
of Venice Jeanette Nguyen Tran, (Drake University, US)
Chapter Seven:‘Qualities of Breeding’: Race, Class, and Conduct in
The Merchant of Venice,
Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University – Newark, US)
Chapter Eight:Jessica, Sarra and Ruth: Three Jewish Women
Confronting Shylock, Shaul Bassi, (Ca’ Foscari University of
Venice, Italy)
Chapter Nine:‘Tainted wether of the flock’: Repurposing
Fiorentino’s Doting Godfather in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice,”
Thomas Cartelli, Professor of English & Film Studies (Muhlenberg
College, US)
Chapter Ten:'Epistemology of the Early Modern Closet, or, The
Merchant of Venice Unlockt,'
A. Eliza Greenstadt, (Portland State University, US)
Notes
References
Index
A collection of cutting-edge scholarship across a range of approaches to The Merchant of Venice.
M. Lindsay Kaplan is Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA, where she teaches courses on Shakespeare, early modern drama, race and religion. She is the author of Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity (2019), editor of The Merchant of Venice: Texts and Contexts (2002) and has published essays on The Merchant of Venice in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, and various volumes of collected essays.
This new collection responds to [the] political climate by
exploring topics, such as, performance, adaptation, race,
queerness, and the philosophies of risk in relation to the play,
bringing the discourse up to date ... [A] diverse selection of
papers that update or extend several areas of study in relation to
Merchant.
*Shakespeare*
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