Birth of Shylock & the Death of Zero Mostel

By Arnold Wesker

Book Overview

Shakespeare's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice-the epitome of money-grabbing avarice and cruelty-is, Arnold Wesker believes, "a libel on the Jews" and a reflection of Elizabethan racism. Wesker, one... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880642386
• ISBN13: 9780880642385
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Fromm Intl
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

The best book on theater I've read in years

This intense diary of one man's experience trying bring one play from his imagination to the stage is a remarkable human document. For anyone in the field, or anyone curious about how new plays are created, this book is essential -- and very pleasurable -- reading. Don't worry if you don't know the author or the play. It's actually more suspenseful if you know neither.