Shylock, the Roman: Unmasking Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice

by Robert Schneider

Book Overview

It's also the most controversial attempt ever made to resolve one of the most emotionally-charged issues in Shakespeare criticism: the question of anti-Semitism in the characterization of Shylock, the Jewish money lender.

This short book on The Merchant of Venice is a literary experiment, an exploration of an untested idea. It begins with a radically counter-intuitive approach: seeing Shylock -- the classic anti-Jewish stereotype -- in terms of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584450665
• ISBN13: 9781584450665
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Pulpless.com
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"