By Laura Tosi,Shaul Bassi

ISBN-10: 1409405478

ISBN-13: 9781409405474

regardless of the transforming into serious relevance of Shakespeare's Venetian performs and a burgeoning bibliography on either The service provider of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt greatly with the connection among Shakespeare and Venice. getting down to provide new views to a conventional subject, this well timed assortment fills a niche within the literature, addressing the recent historic, political and monetary questions which have been raised within the previous few years. The essays during this quantity contemplate Venice a true in addition to symbolic panorama that should be explored in its a number of resonances, either in Shakespeare's ancient context and within the later culture of reconfiguring some of the most represented towns in Western tradition. Shylock and Othello are there to remind us of the darkish aspects of the parable of Venice, and of the inescapable incontrovertible fact that the problems raised within the Venetian performs are greatly topical; we're nonetheless haunted by way of those theatrical casualties of early sleek multiculturalism.

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