LEADER 04035nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910454148003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-95703-8 010 $a9786611957032 010 $a0-226-30992-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226309927 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578665 035 $a(EBL)408461 035 $a(OCoLC)476229146 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000245708 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11200530 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245708 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10177496 035 $a(PQKB)11364667 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000119052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408461 035 $a(DE-B1597)524264 035 $a(OCoLC)1135587615 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226309927 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408461 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266016 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195703 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578665 100 $a20051103d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShylock is Shakespeare$b[electronic resource] /$fKenneth Gross 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-30977-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-196) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tA Note on Texts -- $t1. Beginning -- $t2. The Heart of It -- $t3. Shylock's Nothing -- $t4. The House of the Three Caskets -- $t5. Exchanges -- $t6. Shylock Unbound -- $t7. Are You Answered? -- $t8. A Theater of Complicity -- $t9. The Third Possessor -- $t10. Conversion -- $t11. Golems and Ghosts -- $t12. A Dream -- $t13. Esthétique du Mal -- $t14. Operation Shylock -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aShylock, the Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice who famously demands a pound of flesh as security for a loan to his antisemitic tormentors, is one of Shakespeare's most complex and idiosyncratic characters. With his unsettling eloquence and his varying voices of protest, play, rage, and refusal, Shylock remains a source of perennial fascination. What explains the strange and enduring force of this character, so unlike that of any other in Shakespeare's plays? Kenneth Gross posits that the figure of Shylock is so powerful because he is the voice of Shakespeare himself. Marvelously speculative and articulate, Gross's book argues that Shylock is a breakthrough for Shakespeare the playwright, an early realization of the Bard's power to create dramatic voices that speak for hidden, unconscious, even inhuman impulses-characters larger than the plays that contain them and ready to escape the author's control. Shylock is also a mask for Shakespeare's own need, rage, vulnerability, and generosity, giving form to Shakespeare's ambition as an author and his uncertain bond with the audience. Gross's vision of Shylock as Shakespeare's covert double leads to a probing analysis of the character's peculiar isolation, ambivalence, opacity, and dark humor. Addressing the broader resonance of Shylock, both historical and artistic, Gross examines the character's hold on later readers and writers, including Heinrich Heine and Philip Roth, suggesting that Shylock mirrors the ambiguous states of Jewishness in modernity. A bravura critical performance, Shylock Is Shakespeare will fascinate readers with its range of reference, its union of rigor and play, and its conjectural-even fictive-means of coming to terms with the question of Shylock, ultimately taking readers to the very heart of Shakespeare's humanizing genius. 606 $aShylock (Fictitious character) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aShylock (Fictitious character) 676 $a822.3/3 700 $aGross$b Kenneth$021860 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454148003321 996 $aShylock is Shakespeare$9709806 997 $aUNINA