The Merchant of Venice (Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages)

Several Themes Are Presented Within The Framework Of A Traditional Comedy That Calls For The Triumph Of Young Lovers Over Their Unromantic Elders. Contains A Selection Of The Finest Criticism Through The Centuries On The Merchant Of Venice, As Well As A Biography Of Shakespeare. Series Introduction -- Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Biography Of William Shakespeare -- Summary Of The Merchant Of Venice -- Key Passages In The Merchant Of Venice -- List Of Characters In The Merchant Of Venice -- Criticism Through The Ages -- The Merchant Of Venice In The Seventeenth Century -- On The Stage Appearance Of Shylock / Thomas Jordan 1664 -- The Merchant Of Venice In The Eighteenth Century -- From The Jew Of Venice / George Granville, Baron Landsdowne 1701 -- Life Of The Author, From The Works Of Mr. William Shakespear / Nicholas Rowe 1709 -- From Remarks On The Plays Of Shakespeare / Charles Gildon 1710 -- The Merchant Of Venice (notes), From The Plays Of William Shakespear / Samuel Johnson 1765 -- From Letters From England / Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1775. The Merchant Of Venice In The Nineteenth Century -- Criticisms On Shakespeare's Comedies, From Lectures On Dramatic Art And Literature / August Wilhelm Schlegel 1809 -- The Merchant Of Venice, From Characters Of Shakespear's Plays / William Hazlitt 1817 -- Portia, From Characteristics Of Women : Moral, Poetical, & Historical / Anna Jameson 1833 -- From Heine On Shakespeare: A Translation Of His Notes On Shakespeare Heroines / Heinrich Heine 1838 -- The Merchant Of Venice, From Shakespeare's Dramatic Art / Hermann Ulrici 1839 -- The Merchant Of Venice, From Second Period Of Shakespeare's Dramatic Poetry / Georg Gottfried Gervinus 1849 -- From Studies Of Shakespeare / Charles Knight 1849 -- From Vorlesungen Uber Shakespeare / Friedrich Alexander Theodor Kreyssig 1862 -- The Merchant Of Venice, From Shakespeare-characters : Chiefly Those Subordinate / Charles Cowden Clarke 1863 -- From William Shakespeare / Victor Hugo 1864. The Merchant Of Venice, From Shakespeare : His Life, Art, And Characters / H.n. Hudson 1872 -- Review Of The Merchant Of Venice From The Saturday Review 1879 -- From Jurist Und Dichter / A. Pietscher 1881 -- From Der Kampf Ums Recht / Rudolf Von Ihering 1886 -- Shylock, From Shylock And Others : Eight Studies / G.h. Radford 1894 -- From William Shakespeare : A Critical Study / Georg Brandes 1898 -- The Merchant Of Venice In The Twentieth Century -- The Theme Of The Three Caskets, From On Creativity And The Unconscious / Sigmund Freud 1913 -- Shylock, From Shakespeare Studies : Historical And Comparative In Method / Elmer Edgar Stoll 1927 -- The Merchant Of Venice, From Prefaces To Shakespeare, Second Series / Harley Granville-barker 1930 -- Shakespeare's Method : The Merchant Of Venice, From Shakespeare / J. Middleton Murry 1936 -- The Merchants And The Jew Of Venice : Wealth's Communion And An Intruder, From Shakespeare's Festive Comedy / C.l. Barber 1959 -- Love And Usury In The Merchant Of Venice, From The Dyer's Hand And Other Essays / W.h. Auden 1962. From A Natural Perspective : The Development Of Shakespearean Comedy And Romance / Northrop Frye 1965 -- The Jew As Stranger ; Or 'these Be The Christian Husbands, ' From The Stranger In Shakespeare / Leslie A. Fiedler 1972 -- The Merchant Of Venice, From A New Mimesis : Shakespeare And The Representation Of Reality / A.d. Nuttall 1987 -- Introduction, From Shylock / Harold Bloom 1991 -- Three Thousand Ducats, From Shylock : Four Hundred Years In The Life Of A Legend / John Gross 1992 -- 'the Pound Of Flesh, ' From Shakespeare And The Jews / James Shapiro 1996 -- The Merchant Of Venice In The Twenty-first Century -- Deconstructing The Christian Merchant : Antonio And The Merchant Of Venice, From Shofar : An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Jewish Studies / Gary Rosenshield 2002 -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. [william Shakespeare] ; Edited And With An Introduction By Harold Bloom ; Volume Editor, Neil Heims. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Shakespeare's ""The Merchant of Venice"" is a richly complicated and disturbing work. This title contains a selection of criticism through the centuries on ""The Merchant of Venice"". It features an introduction by Harold Bloom, a summary, analysis of key passages, a comprehensive list of characters, a biography of Shakespeare, and more. These invaluable study guides present the best of Shakespeare criticism for students, from the 17th century to today. Students benefit from a wide range of commentary on each of Shakespeare's greatest works, by the greatest critics in our literary tradition. One would have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to recognize that Shakespeare's grand, equivocal comedy The Merchant of Venice is nevertheless a profoundly anti-Semitic work.