The Early Modern Stage-Jew
Heritage, Inspiration, and Concepts – With the first edition of Nathaniel Wiburne’s «Machiavellus»
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Beschreibung
This book investigates the contemporary conceptions of the Jewish figure on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Taking on what has been said about Shakespeare’s Shylock and Marlowe’s Barabas in the last centuries, seven other, largely ignored plays are analysed to enhance the image we have today of the early modern stage-Jew.
This book investigates the contemporary conceptions of the Jewish figure on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Taking on what has been said about Shakespeare’s Shylock and Marlowe’s Barabas in the last centuries, the author analyses seven other, largely ignored plays to enhance the image we have today of the early modern stage-Jew. In tracing the image of Jewish figures in medieval literature and in early modern travel reports, the foundation of the Elizabethan idea of ‘Jewishness’ is laid out. Further, the author challenges some arguments which have become axiomatic over time, such as the notion of the red-haired, hook-nosed comical villain. The book also contains a first edition of the Latin university play «Machiavellus» by Nathaniel Wiburne, accomplished by Michael Becker and Saskia Zinsser-Krys.
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«Machiavellus» A Christian turn’d Turke Barabas Canterbury Tales Christopher Marlowe Concepts Early edition Fielitz Heritage Inspiration Krys Michael Modern Nathaniel