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Shakespeare and the Jews by James Shapiro

Shakespeare and the Jews

James Shapiro

317 pages first pub 1995 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Most educated readers are familiar with the sinister figure of Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, an anti-Semitic stereotype of the cunning, greedy, and ruthless Jewish man. But how did a stereotype like Shylock enter the literature ...

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