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Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish questions in early modern England, James Shapiro presents how Elizabethans imagined Jews to be utterly different from themselves----in religion, race, nationality, and even sexuality. From strange cases of Christians masquerading as Jews to bizarre proposals to settle foreign Jews in Ireland, this book looks into the crisis of cultural identity in Elizabethan England and sheds new light on The Merchant of Venice.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Shakespeare and the Jews
• Author: James Shapiro
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780231103459
• ISBN: 023110345X
• ID: 04041742
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 488 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 155 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. September 1997

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