ISBN: 9780820457987 - «scorned my nation»: a comparison of translations of "the merchant of venice into german, hebrew, and yiddish (comparative cultures and literatures, band 16) (3 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In this book, the German history of The Merchant of Venice highlights the Central European detour that Shakespearean reception underwent in Hebrew and Yiddish. Such a detour, with its various discomforts, is used to penetrate a current historical and political historiography, rendering Shylock a character that remembers various languages and locations, as well as multiple alternatives for political self-definition. This complex Shakespearean character speaks in many voices and for various purposes and is the only character that can provide the missing link between two contradictory Jewish stereotypes - a persecuted and victimized underling and a merciless and violent plaintive, holding out his knife to draw blood.…