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The Early Modern Stage-Jew: Heritage, Inspiration, and Concepts - With the First Edition of Nathaniel Wiburne's «Machiavellus»

The Early Modern Stage-Jew: Heritage, Inspiration, and Concepts - With the First Edition of Nathaniel Wiburne's «Machiavellus»

Zinsser-Krys, Saskia
Fielitz, Sonja

Hardcover

Series: Kulturelle Identitaeten. Studien Zur Entwicklung der Europaeischen Kulturen der Neuzeit / Cultural I, Book 5

Literary CriticismJudaismPlays

ISBN10: 3631715099
ISBN13: 9783631715093
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Mar 21 2017
Pages: 539
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

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, the author analyses seven other, largely ignored plays to enhance the image we have today of the early modern stage-Jew. In tracing the image of Jewish figures in medieval literature and in early modern travel reports, the foundation of the Elizabethan idea of 'Jewishness' is laid out. Further, the author challenges some arguments which have become axiomatic over time, such as the notion of the red-haired, hook-nosed comical villain. The book also contains a first edition of the Latin university play Machiavellus by Nathaniel Wiburne, accomplished by Michael Becker and Saskia Zinsser-Krys.

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