The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare: The Critical TraditionWilliam Baker, Brian Vickers The Merchant of Venice has always been regarded as one of Shakespeare's most interesting plays. Before the nineteenth century critical reaction is relatively fragmentary. However between then and the late twentieth century the critical tradition reveals the tremendous vitality of the play to evoke emotion in the theatre and in the study. Since the middle of the twentieth century reactions to the drama have been influenced by the Nazi destruction of European Jewry. The first volume to document the full tradition of criticism of The Merchant of Venice includes an extensive introduction which charts the reactions to the play up to the beginning of the twenty first century and reflects changing reactions to prejudice in this period. Material by a variety of critics appears here for the first time since initial publication. Reactions are included from: Malone, Hazlitt, Jameson, Heine, Knight, Lewes, Halliwell-Phillips, Furnivall, Irving, Ruskin, Swinburne, Masefield, Gollancz and Quiller-Couch. |
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... actor , was born John Henry Brodribb . In 1871 he began his connections with the Lyceum , a theatre he managed from 1887 until 1901 , performing with Ellen Terry and acting as its artistic director , administrator , leading actor , and ...
... Acting and the Drama 1872–1901 , ed . Allan Wade ( London , 1949 ) , pp . 138–46 . Upward of two years ago the Lyceum passed into the hands of Mr. Henry Irving , who is without doubt at present the most distinguished actor in England ...
... actor , and evidently bestows an immense deal of care and conscience upon his work ; he meditates , elaborates , and , upon the line on which he moves , carries the part to a very high degree of finish . But it must be affirmed that ...
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GEORG LICHTENBERG on Macklins Shylock 1775 | 20 |
RICHARD HOLE an apology for Shylock 1796 | 22 |
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL one of Shakespeares most perfect works 1815 | 27 |
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