Shakespeare and the Jews by James Shapiro
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Popular Shakespearean critic, James Shapiro, explores the way in which Elizabethan anti-Semitism served as a significant back drop for Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice and the development of the play’s Jewish antagonist, Shylock. Shapiro exposes how profoundly this play appealed to the imagination, apprehension, and enjoyment of its audience. The buoyancy of Shapiro’s writing makes Shakespeare and the Jews a fascinating read, and the subject matter is of great relevance to not only Shakespearean analysis, but religious history and the history of Jews in the Christian world as well.
