The early modern stage-Jew : heritage, inspiration, and concepts : with the first edition of Nathaniel Winburne's Machiavellus /
Zinsser-Krys, Saskiaauthor.
This book investigates the contemporary conceptions of the Jewish figure on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Taking on what has been said about Shakespeare's Shylock and Marlowe's Barabas in the last centuries, seven other, largely ignored plays are analysed to enhance the image we have today of the early modern stage-Jew.
Cover ; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Register of Abbreviations; Register of Illustrations; Introduction; State of Research; Research Questions; Used Editions; Methodology; Summary of the Chapters; I. The Historical Jew; 1. Anglo-Jewish History: William the Conqueror to Edward I; a) First Settlement and Flourishing Community; b) The Royal Milch-Cow; c) Rising Animosity towards Jews; d) The Turning Point; e) The Expulsion; 2. Jewish Individuals in Elizabethan London; a) Spanish Inquisition and Marrano-Jews; b) Marrano-Jews in England; c) Eastern-European Jews in England
D) Famous Isolated Cases -- Maria Nuñez, Dunstan Ames and Roderigo Lopeze) Secret Religious Practices and the Privy Council; f) The False Conversion of Joseph Barnet; 3. Elizabethan Attitude towards Jews; a) The Confusion on Race vs. Religion; b) Judaisers and Millenarians; c) Jews as Cut-Throat Usurers; d) 'Jew' as Term of Abuse; e) Missing Emotions, Lying, Malice, Sorcery, Stubbornness, and Simplemindedness; f) Ritual Murders -- still present in the Elizabethan Mind; II. The Imagined Jew; 1. The Jew in Medieval Scare Stories; a) The Well-Poisoner; b) Christ-Murderer; c) Child-Murderer
D) Ritual Murder in LiteratureFabula Ineptissima; The Jew's Daughter; Geoffrey Chaucer's The Prioress's Tale; 2. The Jew in Mystery Cycles and Miracle Plays; a) The Corpus Christi Plays of England; York Cycle, Towneley Cycle, N-Town Plays, Chester Cycle; Performance Practices; b) The Stage-Jew in the Corpus Christi Plays; Ridiculous Stage-Jew; Cruel and Blood-Thirsty Stage-Jew; Greedy Stage-Jew; c) Stage-Judas in the Corpus Christi Plays; Greedy and Malicious Judas; The Remorse and Suicide of Judas; d) Costuming, Reception, and Dramaturgical Function of the Stage-Jew
E) The Croxton Play of the Blessed SacramentThe Manuscript; Introduction of the Jewish Figure -- Gold-Loving and Malicious Merchant; Curiosity and Cruelty against Christ; Conversion; f) Summary: The Jew in Corpus Christi Cycles and Miracle Plays; 3. The Jew in Travel Literature; a) Jewish Living Situations: Ghettos and Garment Rules; b) Skilled and Educated Jewish Merchants and Physicians; c) Jews as Threat and Allies of Turks; d) Jewish Worship and Rituals; e) Jewish Reluctance to Acknowledge Christ; f) Hospitable and Friendly Jews; g) Summary; III. The Staged Jew
1. Between Travel Account and Drama: Thomas Nashe'sa) Zadoch and Zacharie: Greedy, Cunning, and Cruel Jews; b) Poison as weapon; c) Zacharie as Evil Physician; d) Physiognomy; e) The Punishment fits the Crime; f) Allusions to Jews in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; 2. The Plays; a) Robert Wilson: The Three Ladies of London; b) Christopher Marlowe: The Jew of Malta; c) Robert Greene: Selimus; d) William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice; e) Nathaniel Wiburne: Machiavellus; f) John Day, George Wilkins, William Rowley: The Travailes of the three English Brothers
This book investigates the contemporary conceptions of the Jewish figure on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Taking on what has been said about Shakespeare's Shylock and Marlowe's Barabas in the last centuries, seven other, largely ignored plays are analysed to enhance the image we have today of the early modern stage-Jew.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
English drama
Jews in literature.
Theater
Theater
DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English drama
Jews in literature.
Relations with Jews.
Theater.

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