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基本信息·出版社：W. W. Norton
·页码：347 页
·出版日期：2005年12月
·ISBN：0393925293
·条形码：9780393925296
·版本：New
·装帧：平装
·外文书名：威尼斯商人
内容简介 The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most beautiful plays and, conversely, his ugliest. Juxtaposed within the same conceptual frame are heavenly and musical harmonies, romantic love, materialism, and racism. This Norton Critical Edition has been carefully edited to make
The Merchant of Venice, its surrounding history, and the history of its critical reception and rewritings accessible to readers. The text of this edition is based on the 1600 First Quarto, with light editing and substantial explanatory annotations by Leah S. Marcus.
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Sources and Contexts" largely focuses on the character of Shylock and the issue of anti-Semitism in the play. Materials included are diverse, and at times contradictory, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions. Examples include seventeenth-century anti-Semitic literature, an essay from the same period defending Jews and arguing for their repatriation in England, an examination of the Christian theology of the play, and readings of
The Merchant of Venice as exclusionary for Jews, women, and people of color.
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Criticism" collects twenty-one diverse interpretations. In addition to Shylock and the question of anti-Semitism, these essays address
The Merchant of Venice in the context of postcolonial, feminist, and queer theory and explore relevant issues of economic status and organization.
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Rewritings and Appropriations" includes excerpts from dramatic, musical, and other literary adaptations of
The Merchant of Venice, as well as a selection of poems, most of them from the twentieth century, on the character of Shylock.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the
Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.
作者简介 Leah S. Marcus is Edwin Mims Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of
Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton,
Puzzling Shakespeare: Local Reading and Its Discontents,
The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes, and
Childhood and Cultural Despair: A Theme and Variations in Seventeenth-Century Literature. She is co-editor of
Elizabeth I: Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language Originals and
Elizabeth I: Collected Works.
