In many ways, he argues, Shakespeare’s play is even more accepting than Francis Bacon’s notably inclusive New Atlantis or the Jewish philosopher Benedict Spinoza’s argument for tolerance in the Theologico-Political Treatise. He finds that Shakespeare’s consideration of Judaism in The Merchant of Venice provides an important contrast to Marlowe’s virulent The Jew of Malta. In Shylock and the Jewish Question, Yaffe challenges the widespread assumption that Shakespeare is, in the final analysis, unfriendly to Jews. In Harold Blooms New York Times bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, the worlds foremost literary. The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom 205 pages first pub 1596 ( editions) fiction classics play challenging funny fast-paced Description William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is a richly complicated and, to some, a deeply disturbing work. Your next mind blowing Shakespeare revelation: Merchant of Venice was about. Masterpiece Theater lives up to its name with the presentation of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice in a production. While others see only gross caricature in The Merchant of Venice, however, Martin Yaffe finds a subtle analysis of the Jew’s place in a largely Christian society. Was reading an old Harold Bloom book where he wrote that he thought a.

Most scholars have agreed with Harold Bloom that Shakespeare’s famous villain is drawn with a “murderous anti-Semitism” and that Shakespeare uncritically mirrors the rife anti-Semitism of his times. Much attention has been paid to the place of Shylock in the history of anti-Semitism. Martin Yaffe, Shylock and the Jewish Question (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)

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