The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare: The Critical TraditionWilliam Baker, Brian Vickers Bloomsbury Academic, 15.05.2005 - 480 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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... light and a serious story ' . The trial scene gathers the emotional threads of the play into a knot , where ' the two per- sonages who are the embodiments of the light and serious elements face one another as judge and prisoner ...
... light story . Again , it is a natural law of the human mind to pass from strain to reaction , and suspense relieved will find vent in vehement exhilaration . By giving Portia her position in the crisis scene the dramatist is clearly ...
... light of the venerable Hebrew , the Martyr , the Avenger . He has several followers , and I once tried to view him in that light , but he doesn't cast a shadow sufficiently strong to contrast with the sunshine of the comedy . ... ' Twas ...
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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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