The Merchant of Venice
Contributors: Harold Bloom (Editor); Neil Heims (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Published: November 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780791095768
Subjects: English literature: Shakespeare criticism; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Juvenile Nonfiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12); General; Shakespeare; Study guides, home study & revision notes; Literary Criticism & Collections; Comedies; Drama; Italy; Jews; Moneylenders
First sentence: One would have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to recognize that Shakespeare's grand, equivocal comedy The Merchant of Venice is nevertheless a profoundly anti-Semitic work.
Notes: Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages