Shakespeare’s Construction of the Jew
Shakespeare’s Construction of the Jew

Summary/Abstract: "In The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare draws heavily on historical imagination rather than on historical reality in creating the character of Shylock and constructs the image in which the mythical Jew assumes the semblance of reality, an image that becomes the stereotype and historical image of a Jew. A close look however reveals that, unlike Marlowe, Shakespeare does not present a simplistic, monomaniac character like Barabas in The Jew of Malta but a character who is highly complex."[...]

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