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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... tragic character , not a comic one , often complain at the way in which Portia seems to spin out the suspense in the trial scene , giving Shylock one chance after another to abandon his wish for Antonio's death , until she releases ...
... tragic , since it first presented Shylock's vindictiveness , then systematically reversed it : in Shakespeare's source , Il Pecorone , this sequence is described as ' the biter bit ' . ' The mistake of the critics ' who elevate ...
... tragic passion , the dramatist has been able to extract more tragic effect out of it by the device of assisting the tragic with a light story . Again , it is a natural law of the human mind to pass from strain to reaction , and suspense ...
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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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