The Merchant of Venice: A Critical Reader (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hatchuel, Sarah; Vienne-Guerrin, Nathalie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research.

Key features include:
- Essays on the play's critical and performance history
- A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play
- A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice has often been labelled a 'problem play', and throughout the ages it has been an object of both fascination and repulsion. Without neglecting the socio-political and religious issues that are at the heart of the play, this collection of critical essays invites readers to rediscover the variety of approaches that this multifaceted work calls for, exploring its gender aspects, its rich mythological background, its legal matters and the ways in which it has been adapted to the screen. Essays consider the play in relation to its sources, genre and religion, historical and socio-political context and its critical reception and performance history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350082304
• Artikelnr.: 60317884

Autorenporträt

Sarah Hatchuel is Professor in Film & Media Studies at the university Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France, and former President of the Société Française Shakespeare. Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is Professor in Shakespeare studies at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France, former Vice President of the Société Française Shakespeare and director of the 'Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l'âge Classique et les Lumières'.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Introduction The Merchant of Venice Timeline
by S. Hatchuel (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
France) and N. Vienne-Guerrin (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
France) Introduction: The Merchant of Venice: the unruly play
by S. Hatchuel and N. Vienne-Guerrin The Critical Backstory
by John Drakakis (University of Sterling
UK) Performance History
by Jay Halio (University of Delaware
USA) The State of the Art
by Shaul Bassi (Università Ca'Foscari Venezia
Italy) New Directions: New Direction 1: "Affections dark as Erebus" - religion
gender
and the passions in The Merchant of Venice
by Sabine Schülting (Freie Universität Berlin
Germany) New Direction 2: "The moon shines bright": re-viewing the Belmont mythological tapestry in Act 5 of The Merchant of Venice
by Janice Valls-Russell (CNRS
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
France) New Direction 3: "That ugly treason of mistrust": rhetoric of credit and the credit of rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice
by Gary Watt (University of Warwick
UK) New Direction 4: Screening The Merchant of Venice
by Douglas M. Lanier (University of New Hampshire
USA) Learning and teaching Resources
by Lieke Stelling (University of Utrecht
Netherlands) Notes on Contributors Index