Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare)

Synopsis

Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust　uses Jewish theology to mount a courageous new reading of a four-hundred-year-old play,　The Merchant of Venice. While victimhood and antisemitism have been the understandable focus of the　Merchant　critical history for decades, Lion urges scholars, performers, and readers to see beyond the racism in Shakespeare's plays by recovering Shakespearean themes of potentiality and human flourishing as they emerge within the Jewish tradition itself.　Lion joins the race conversation in Shakespeare studies today by drawing on the intellectual history and oppression of　the Jewish people, borrowing from thinkers Franz Rosenzweig and Abraham Joshua Heschel as well as Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and rabbis from the Talmud to today. This volume interweaves post-confessional, Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, and mystical ideas with Shakespeare's poetry and opens conversations of prophecy, love, spirituality, care, and community. It concludes with brief critical sketches of　Antony and Cleopatra,　Hamlet,　and　Macbeth　to demonstrate that Shakespeare when interpreted through Jewish theological frameworks can point to post-credal solutions and transformed societal paradigms of repair that encourage action and the shaping of a finer world.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

240 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000630039

Related ISBNs:

9781032121376, 9781032121390, 9781003223269

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

08/18/22

Copyrighted By:

Caroline Wiesenthal Lion

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts

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