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Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research.
Key features include:
- Essays on the play's critical and performance history
- A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play
- A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice has often been labelled a 'problem play', and throughout the ages it has been an object of both fascination and repulsion. Without neglecting the socio-political and religious issues that are at the heart of the play, this collection of critical essays invites readers to rediscover the variety of approaches that this multifaceted work calls for, exploring its gender aspects, its rich mythological background, its legal matters and the ways in which it has been adapted to the screen. Essays consider the play in relation to its sources, genre and religion, historical and socio-political context and its critical reception and performance history.
Contents
Series Introduction
The Merchant of Venice Timeline, by S. Hatchuel (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) and N. Vienne-Guerrin (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France)
Introduction: The Merchant of Venice: the unruly play, by S. Hatchuel and N. Vienne-Guerrin
The Critical Backstory, by John Drakakis (University of Sterling, UK)
Performance History, by Jay Halio (University of Delaware, USA)
The State of the Art, by Shaul Bassi (Università Ca'Foscari Venezia, Italy)
New Directions:
New Direction 1: "Affections dark as Erebus" - religion, gender, and the passions in The Merchant of Venice, by Sabine Schülting (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
New Direction 2: "The moon shines bright": re-viewing the Belmont mythological tapestry in Act 5 of The Merchant of Venice, by Janice Valls-Russell (CNRS, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France)
New Direction 3: "That ugly treason of mistrust": rhetoric of credit and the credit of rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice, by Gary Watt (University of Warwick, UK)
New Direction 4: Screening The Merchant of Venice, by Douglas M. Lanier (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Learning and teaching Resources, by Lieke Stelling (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
Notes on Contributors
Index
