An edition of Shylock (1989)

Shylock

von Shakespeare bis zum Nürnberger Prozess

Shylock
Dietrich Schwanitz, Dietrich S ...
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An edition of Shylock (1989)

Shylock

von Shakespeare bis zum Nürnberger Prozess

Analyzes the development of antisemitism from the early Renaissance to Nazism. Traces the figures of Shylock and of Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew, in literary works and stage presentations, showing that they reflect changing attitudes to Jews. Suggests that Shakespeare's Shylock embodies all the traditional stereotypes of the Jew, such as bloodthirstiness and avarice. The plot of "The Merchant of Venice" is based on the interplay of bourgeois, aristocrat, and Jew, a triangle that recurs in history and in literature (e.g. in the Dreyfus Affair and in Gustav Freytag's "Soll und Haben"). Examines variations of the model in Disraeli and Marx, and the identification of Jews with any hated class or with all of them simultaneously, as in Nazism. Antisemitism was reinforced by the Church's allegations, after the French Revolution, of a world Jewish conspiracy, and by racist ideology. All these elements met in Hitler's vision of extirpating the strangers from society in order to return to pre-capitalist brotherhood. Describes the Nuremberg Trials as a counter-play to the trial scene in "The Merchant of Venice". Pp. 237-293 contain the text of a play by David Henry Wilson.

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Publisher
R. Krämer
Language
German
Pages
293

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Shylock: Von Shakespeare bis zum Nurnberger Prozess
1989, R. Kramer
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Cover of: Shylock
Shylock: von Shakespeare bis zum Nürnberger Prozess
1989, R. Krämer
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-234).
Text of Shylock's Revenge in English.

Published in
Hamburg
Other Titles
Shylock's Revenge.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822.009/35203924
Library of Congress
PR2825 .S38 1989

The Physical Object

Pagination
293 p. :
Number of pages
293

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1600992M
ISBN 10
3926952121
LCCN
91135984
OCLC/WorldCat
23733021
Deutsche National Bibliothek
900163941
Goodreads
3004440

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