The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare: The Critical TraditionWilliam Baker, Brian Vickers Bloomsbury Academic, 15.05.2005 - 437 Seiten The Merchant of Venice has always been regarded as one of Shakespeare's most interesting plays. Before the nineteenth century critical reaction is relatively fragmentary. However between then and the late twentieth century the critical tradition reveals the tremendous vitality of the play to evoke emotion in the theatre and in the study. Since the middle of the twentieth century reactions to the drama have been influenced by the Nazi destruction of European Jewry. The first volume to document the full tradition of criticism of The Merchant of Venice includes an extensive introduction which charts the reactions to the play up to the beginning of the twenty first century and reflects changing reactions to prejudice in this period. Material by a variety of critics appears here for the first time since initial publication. Reactions are included from: Malone, Hazlitt, Jameson, Heine, Knight, Lewes, Halliwell-Phillips, Furnivall, Irving, Ruskin, Swinburne, Masefield, Gollancz and Quiller-Couch. |
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... Gratiano , is a most delightful and most natural character . He is one of those useful men in society who will keep up the ball of mirth and good - humour , simply by his own mercurial temperament and agreeable rattle ; for he is like a ...
... Gratiano's jeers touching his baptism , to provoke in the audience the laughter of triumph and vengeance in his own day and bring tears to their eyes in ours . How can we here for a moment sympathize with Shylock unless at the same time ...
... Gratiano [ Quotes 4.1.133–7 ] . What does it mean ? A wolf hanged for human slaughter , who ever heard of such a thing ? This wolf was no quadruped , it was a Jewish animal , in other words it was Lopez himself , who is commonly called ...
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GEORG LICHTENBERG on Macklins Shylock 1775 | 20 |
RICHARD HOLE an apology for Shylock 1796 | 22 |
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL one of Shakespeares most perfect works 1815 | 27 |
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