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, and propose a similar analysis of Othello and The Tempest.
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, and propose a similar analysis of Othello and The Tempest.
Caroline Wiesenthal Lion is a research associate at the New Swan Shakespeare Center, the University of California, Irvine. She has taught at and/or received faculty and research grants from Rogue Community College (Oregon), Southern Oregon University, and the University of Birmingham, UK. She holds a PhD from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. In the past, graduate studies at the Tisch School at New York University in Dramatic Writing brought her to the award-winning Magic Theatre of San Francisco where she served as the literary manager. She has been rabbinically trained at the Academy for Jewish Religion (California), ALEPH, and the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. She has received notable endorsements for her fiction, her rabbinic teachings have been published, and her plays produced. The widow of John Lion, founder of the Magic Theatre, she is most proud of their four talented children.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Introduction: Antisemitism, Revelation, and Epiphany Chapter One: Shylock: The Imprint of the Path Chapter Two: Lorenzo: Braving the 'Perhaps' Chapter Three: Antonio: The Imprint of the Path Chapter Four: Portia: Love or Pretense Chapter Five: Jessica: The Courage of the 'Gift' Chapter Six: The Trial and the Rings Conclusion: Jewish Thought Beyond Shylock Bibliography
Foreword Introduction: Antisemitism, Revelation, and Epiphany Chapter One: Shylock: The Imprint of the Path Chapter Two: Lorenzo: Braving the 'Perhaps' Chapter Three: Antonio: The Imprint of the Path Chapter Four: Portia: Love or Pretense Chapter Five: Jessica: The Courage of the 'Gift' Chapter Six: The Trial and the Rings Conclusion: Jewish Thought Beyond Shylock Bibliography
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