...Julia Reinhard Lupton Reviews Shylock Is Shakespeare. By Kenneth Gross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi + 202 pp. Kenneth Gross’s Shylock Is Shakespeare is at once an intimate record of one scholar’s reading experience and a wide-ranging interpretive engagement...

...Alan C. Dessen Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE JEW AND CHRISTIAN EXAMPLE GERONTUS, BARABAS, AND SHYLOCK By ALANC. DESSEN There will be no final solution...

... to the theater, the popular spectacle is not even The Merchant of Venice, but “Mr. Kean . . . in Shylock” (Vanity Fair, chap. 26). Twentieth-century performers and critics have succeeded in finding a good deal more in the play and in moving from attention to a narrow center of interest to a fuller...

... most legalistic- foriiis. Yet in each she also reveals her most appealing trait, a gift for niaking enlightened exceptions. These exceptions are in the service of a large- minded sense of law, one that includes its spirit as well as its letter; and it is through them, not through out-Shylocking...

...Christopher Matthews Reviews Shylock Is Shakespeare. By Kenneth Gross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi + 202 pp. Kenneth Gross’s Shylock Is Shakespeare is at once an intimate record of one scholar’s reading experience and a wide-ranging interpretive engagement...

...Martha Banta Reviews Shylock Is Shakespeare. By Kenneth Gross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi + 202 pp. Kenneth Gross’s Shylock Is Shakespeare is at once an intimate record of one scholar’s reading experience and a wide-ranging interpretive engagement with one...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Reviews Shylock Is Shakespeare. By Kenneth Gross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi + 202 pp. Kenneth Gross’s Shylock Is Shakespeare is at once an intimate record of one scholar’s reading experience and a wide-ranging interpretive engagement with one...

...Paul Giles Reviews Shylock Is Shakespeare. By Kenneth Gross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi + 202 pp. Kenneth Gross’s Shylock Is Shakespeare is at once an intimate record of one scholar’s reading experience and a wide-ranging interpretive engagement with one...

...Bruce Robbins Reviews Shylock Is Shakespeare. By Kenneth Gross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi + 202 pp. Kenneth Gross’s Shylock Is Shakespeare is at once an intimate record of one scholar’s reading experience and a wide-ranging interpretive engagement with one...

...Donald Wesling Reviews Shylock Is Shakespeare. By Kenneth Gross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi + 202 pp. Kenneth Gross’s Shylock Is Shakespeare is at once an intimate record of one scholar’s reading experience and a wide-ranging interpretive engagement with one...

...David Simpson Reviews Shylock Is Shakespeare. By Kenneth Gross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi + 202 pp. Kenneth Gross’s Shylock Is Shakespeare is at once an intimate record of one scholar’s reading experience and a wide-ranging interpretive engagement with one...

...Herbert Lindenberger Reviews Shylock Is Shakespeare. By Kenneth Gross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi + 202 pp. Kenneth Gross’s Shylock Is Shakespeare is at once an intimate record of one scholar’s reading experience and a wide-ranging interpretive engagement...

... by reading Judaism in the play as a displacement of Puritanism. Since The Merchant of Venice is no longer “really” about Jews, Lukacher can redeem the character of Shylock as a reliable portrait of Puri- tans, through whom Shakespeare “knew all he needed to know” of Jews (110). In the deeper logic...

... MLQ June 2004 and went through their performance. To Mr. Ss, and probably to the reader’s astonishment, the play which they had selected was the “Merchant of Venice.” Of the rest of it he perhaps thought, like the queen of the Amazons, that it was “sorry stuff,” but Shylock’s...

... of that play. Another graduate student proved quite as conclusively that the acting of Shylock corresponded century by century to the sociological attitude toward Jews at each particular period.s5 This in itself is a type of historical criticism, but the indi- vidual interpretation of Shylock...

... cast; and, if Orlando had been obliged to struggle toward his goal, he doubtless would have changed to melancholy. He is a simple humor-type, and runs true to form without a dis- cordant note, quite in contrast to those complex personalities who, like Shylock,69were born under one...

..., not clearly definable, proportion between these two not clearly defined faculties. The head-heart duality is somewhat more fully described in a pass- age from the casket scene of Shylock (1828), the only passage in the translations from Shakespeare, by the way, which differs substantially...

... a brief period during the trial scene in which Graziano becomes an echo for Shylock — and therefore, admittedly, derivative — and is understand- ably grateful for the change: “A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! / I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word” [4.1.335 – 36 Graziano...

... in kind from those of nineteenth-century critics. Where the latter imagined that Shakespeare became so fascinated by characters like Mer- cutio, Falstaff, and Shylock that he allowed them to outgrow their intended roles and threaten his dramatic designs, Blanpied imagines that Shake- speare...

... anyone, the management invited from Dorchester an actor by the name of Edmund Kean, who was given the part of Shylock for the night of January 26, 1814. There had been but one desultory rehearsal with an indifferent supporting cast, and the old troupers sneered as the young man put a black...