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  title info:
    title: Reading Shakespeare in Jewish theological frameworks
    sub title: Shylock beyond the Holocaust
  name:
    name part: Lion, Caroline Wiesenthal
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 226 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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. While victimhood and antisemitism have been the understandable focus of the Merchant critical history for decades, Lion urges scholars, performers and readers to see beyond the racism in Shakespeare's plays by recovering Shakespearean themes of potentiality and human flourishing as they emerge within the Jewish tradition itself. Lion joins the race conversation in Shakespeare studies today by drawing on the intellectual history and oppression of the Jewish people, borrowing from thinkers Franz Rosenzweig and Abraham Joshua Heschel as well as Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and rabbis from the Talmud to today. This volume interweaves post-confessional, Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish and mystical ideas with Shakespeare's poetry and opens conversations of prophecy, love, spirituality, care and community. It concludes with brief critical sketches of Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet and Macbeth to demonstrate that Shakespeare when interpreted through Jewish theological frameworks can point to post-credal solutions and transformed societal paradigms of repair that encourage action and the shaping of a finer world.
  note: Caroline Wiesenthal Lion.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [200]-214) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Fictitious character)
      name part: Shylock
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Jews in literature
  subject:
    topic: Judaism and literature
  classification: PR2965 .L56 2022
  classification: 822.33
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge studies in Shakespeare
  identifier: 1032121378
  identifier: 9781032121376
  identifier: 9781000630008
  identifier: 9781000630039
  identifier: 9781003223269
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220303
    record change date: 20250816185405.3
    record identifier: in00004633757