Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy

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Simon and Schuster, Jan 4, 1994 - Drama - 386 pages
With brilliant historical perspective and insight, theater critic John Gross explores the complex and influential history that has given Shylock a life beyond the play and established him as a figure of world mythology.

Illuminating Shylock's evolution on the stage, his importance to writers and psychologists, and his enduring influence on society and culture, John Gross sheds as much light on our own shifting attitudes and beliefs as on the rich and disquieting figure Shakespeare created.

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Contents

Preface
9
CONTENTS
10
EIGHT
16
THIRTEEN
39
47
68
FOURTEEN
79
Interpretations 16001939
103
FIFTEEN
112
Romantics and Revisionists
125
NINETEEN
140
Henry Irving
145
Stage and Study
165
Between the Wars
184
234
285
Notes
370
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John Gross FRSL was an eminent English man of letters. A leading intellectual, writer, anthologist, and critic, The Guardian and The Spectator were among several publications to describe Gross as "the best-read man in Britain"