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178 - Iconic Characters: Shylock

from Part XVIII - Shakespeare and Popular Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Sabine Schülting
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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anti-Semitismcostumecultural remembrancefilm adaptationHolocaustreceptionShylockstage historystereotypeThe Merchant of Venice
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1325 - 1326
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Kennedy, Dennis. Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.Google Scholar
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Shapiro, Michael. “Shylock the Old Clothes Man: Victorian Burlesques of The Merchant of Venice.” Shakespeare’s World / World Shakespeares. The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Brisbane, 2006. Ed. Fotheringham, Richard et al. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2008. 119–29.Google Scholar

Further Reading

Burnett, Mark Thornton. “Remembrance, Holocaust, Globalization.” Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 87–106.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feinberg, Anat. “The Janus-Faced Jew: Nathan and Shylock on the Post-war German Stage.” Unlikely History: The Changing German–Jewish Symbiosis, 1945–2000. Ed. Morris, Leslie and Zipes, Jack. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 233–50.Google Scholar
Gross, John. Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend. London: Chatto and Windus, 1992.Google Scholar
Lelyveld, Toby. Shylock on the Stage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961.Google Scholar
Rosenberg, Edgar. From Shylock to Svengali: Jewish Stereotypes in English Fiction. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1960.Google Scholar
Schülting, Sabine. “‘Remember Me’: Shylock on the Postwar German Stage.” Shakespeare Survey 63 (2010): 290–300.Google Scholar
Shapiro, Michael. “The Faginization of Shylock.” University of California Television. 18 June 2007. http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=12411.Google Scholar

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