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Shakespeare and the Jews

James Shapiro

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UPC:
9780231103459
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1997-04-15
Author:
James Shapiro
Language:
english
Edition:
Revised
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Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish questions in early modern England, James Shapiro presents how Elizabethans imagined Jews to be utterly different from themselvesin religion, race, nationality, and even sexuality. From strange cases of Christians masquerading as Jews to bizarre proposals to settle foreign Jews in Ireland, this book looks into the crisis of cultural identity in Elizabethan England and sheds new light on The Merchant of Venice.