Includes bibliographical references (p. 251) and index.
Contents:
From Letters from England / Introduction / Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Biography of William Shakespeare -- Summary of The Merchant of Venice -- Key passages in The Merchant of Venice -- List of characters in The Merchant of Venice -- Criticism through the ages -- 1775 -- Merchant of Venice in the seventeenth century -- On the stage appearance of Shylock / Thomas Jordan 1664 -- The Merchant of Venice in the eighteenth century -- From The Jew of Venice / George Granville, Baron Landsdowne 1701 -- "Life of the author," from The Works of Mr. William Shakespear / Nicholas Rowe 1709 -- From "Remarks on the plays of Shakespeare" / Charles Gildon 1710 -- The Merchant of Venice (notes), from The Plays of William Shakespear / Samuel Johnson 1765 -- From Letters from England / Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1775 -- 1864 -- From William Shakespeare / "Criticisms on Shakespeare's comedies", from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature / Victor Hugo 1809 -- "The Merchant of Venice," from Characters of Shakespear's Plays / William Hazlitt 1817 -- "Portia," from Characteristics of Women : Moral, Poetical, & Historical / Anna Jameson 1833 -- From Heine on Shakespeare: A Translation of His Notes on Shakespeare Heroines / Heinrich Heine 1838 -- "The Merchant of Venice," from Shakespeare's Dramatic Art / Hermann Ulrici 1839 -- "The Merchant of Venice, from Second Period of Shakespeare's Dramatic Poetry / Georg Gottfried Gervinus 1849 -- From Studies of Shakespeare / Charles Knight 1849 -- From Vorlesungen uber Shakespeare / Friedrich Alexander Theodor Kreyssig 1862 -- "The Merchant of Venice," from Shakespeare-Characters : Chiefly Those Subordinate / Charles Cowden Clarke 1863 -- From William Shakespeare / Victor Hugo 1864 -- 1962 -- Dyer's Hand and Other Essays / from Shakespeare : His Life, Art, and Characters / W.H. Auden 1872 -- Review of The Merchant of Venice from The Saturday Review 1879 -- From Jurist und Dichter / A. Pietscher 1881 -- From Der Kampf ums Recht / Rudolf von Ihering 1886 -- "Shylock," from Shylock and Others : Eight Studies / G. H. Radford 1894 -- From William Shakespeare : a Critical Study / Georg Brandes 1898 -- The Merchant of Venice in the twentieth century -- "The theme of the three caskets," from On Creativity and the Unconscious / Sigmund Freud 1913 -- "Shylock," from Shakespeare Studies : Historical and Comparative in Method / Elmer Edgar Stoll 1927 -- "The Merchant of Venice," from Prefaces to Shakespeare, Second Series / Harley Granville-Barker 1930 -- "Shakespeare's method : The Merchant of Venice," from Shakespeare / J. Middleton Murry 1936 -- "The Merchants and the Jew of Venice : Wealth's Communion and an Intruder," from Shakespeare's Festive Comedy / C.L. Barber 1959 -- "Love and Usury in The Merchant of Venice," from The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays / W.H. Auden 1962 -- Index. Gary Rosenshield 2002 -- "The Jew as stranger ; or 'These be the Christian husbands,'" from The Stranger in Shakespeare / Leslie A. Fiedler 1972 -- "The Merchant of Venice," from A New Mimesis : Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality / A.D. Nuttall 1987 -- "Introduction ," from Shylock / Harold Bloom 1991 -- "Three thousand ducats," from Shylock : Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend / John Gross 1992 -- "'The pound of flesh,'" from Shakespeare and the Jews / James Shapiro 1996 -- The Merchant of Venice in the twenty-first century -- "Deconstructing the Christian merchant : Antonio and The Merchant of Venice," from Shofar : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies / Gary Rosenshield 2002 -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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