Shakespeare and the Jews /

Shakespeare and the Jews / / James Shapiro.

First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's day. From accounts of Christians masquerading as Jews to fantasies of settling foreign Jews i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Shapiro, James,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:twentieth anniversary edition
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 15 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Texts
  • Introduction
  • 1. False Jews and Counterfeit Christians
  • 2. Myths, Histories, Consequences
  • 3. The Jewish Crime
  • 4. "The Pound of Flesh"
  • 5. The Hebrew Will Turn Christian
  • 6. Race, Nation, or Alien?
  • 7. Shakespeare and the Jew Bill of 1753
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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