The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare: The Critical TraditionWilliam Baker, Brian Vickers Bloomsbury Academic, 15.05.2005 - 480 Seiten The Merchant of Venice has always been regarded as one of Shakespeare's most interesting plays. Before the nineteenth century critical reaction is relatively fragmentary. However between then and the late twentieth century the critical tradition reveals the tremendous vitality of the play to evoke emotion in the theatre and in the study. Since the middle of the twentieth century reactions to the drama have been influenced by the Nazi destruction of European Jewry. The first volume to document the full tradition of criticism of The Merchant of Venice includes an extensive introduction which charts the reactions to the play up to the beginning of the twenty first century and reflects changing reactions to prejudice in this period. Material by a variety of critics appears here for the first time since initial publication. Reactions are included from: Malone, Hazlitt, Jameson, Heine, Knight, Lewes, Halliwell-Phillips, Furnivall, Irving, Ruskin, Swinburne, Masefield, Gollancz and Quiller-Couch. |
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... never stands still , there is no vacant pause in the action : the eye is never silent . It is not saying too much of Mr. Kean , though it is saying a great deal , that he has all the Mr. Kemble wants of perfection . The accounts in the ...
... never missed and never obtruded , the modesty of nature never overstepped - implies , to our thinking , a degree of intelligence , imagination , feeling , humour , and taste , which ( combined as it is with such perfect command of all ...
... never find a word without wit , never a line without pith , never a letter placed in vaine . The Jew , and Ptolome , shown at the Bull : the one representing the greediness of worldly chusers , and bloody minds of usurers ; the other ...
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GEORG LICHTENBERG on Macklins Shylock 1775 | 20 |
RICHARD HOLE an apology for Shylock 1796 | 22 |
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL one of Shakespeares most perfect works 1815 | 27 |
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