
The Merchant of Venice
Edited by M. M. Mahood
William Shakespeare(Author)
M. M. Mahood(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
213 pages
978-0-521-53251-8 (ISBN)
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Description
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of The Merchant of Venice retains the text and Introduction prepared by M. M. Mahood and features a new introductory section by Charles Edelman. Where Mahood focuses in her Introduction on the expectations of the play's first audience and on our modern experience of seeing and hearing the drama performed, Edelman explores the play's sexual politics. He also foregrounds recent scholarship on the position of Jews in Shakespeare's time and surveys the international scope and diversity of theatrical interpretations of the text in the 1980s and 1990s. He pays particular attention to the ways in which directors and actors tackle the troubling figure of Shylock.
Reviews / Votes
'The introduction and commentary reveal an author with a lively awareness of the importance of perceiving the play as a theatrical document, one which comes to life, which is completed only in performance.' The Review of English StudiesMore details
Series
Edition
Updated edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
16 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
352 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-53251-8 (9780521532518)
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Persons
Author
Editor
University of Kent, Canterbury
Contributions
Content
Introduction, with new section on recent critical and stage interpretations by Charles Edelman; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Supplementary note; Textual analysis; Appendix: Shakespeare's use of the Bible in The Merchant of Venice; Reading list.