The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn : Volume 1: ""A Touch of Wildness"" by Melnick, Ralph

Table of Contents: “…Vision of Terror; 22. Shylock's Redemption.…”
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The Shakespeare wars : clashing scholars, public fiascoes, palace coups by Rosenbaum, Ron

Table of Contents: “…. ": the scandal of Lear's last words -- The war over what is-and what isn't-"Shakespearean" -- The great Shakespeare "funeral elegy" Fiasco -- The Indian, the Judean and Hand D -- The promise and perils of Shakespearean "Originalism" -- The search for the Shakespearean in a delicate pause -- The spell of the Shakespearean in "original spelling" -- Dueling shylocks -- Shakespeare on film: a contrarian argument -- Three giants -- Peter Brook: the search for the secret play -- "You can't have him, Harold!"…”


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The best men's monologues of 1996

Table of Contents: “…An ordinary woman under stress / Sandra Marie Vago -- Painting X's on the moon / Richard Vetere -- Portrait of the virgin Mary feeding the dinosaurs / Jeff Goode -- Sad laughter / Charles Deemer -- Shylock / Mark Leiren-Young -- Six at twenty six / Seth Wallace -- Smoke & mirrors / Eric C. …”


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Picturing Chinatown : art and orientalism in San Francisco by Lee, Anthony W., 1960-

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Jewish theatre a global view

Table of Contents: “…Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa.…”
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Citizen-Saints : Shakespeare and Political Theology. by Lupton, Julia Reinhard, 1963-

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Administering interpretation : Derrida, Agamben, and the political theology of law

Table of Contents: “…Schroeder -- Law against justice and solidarity : rereading Derrida and Agamben at the margins of the one and the many / Michel Rosenfeld -- Jacques Derrida never wrote about law / Pierre Legrand -- Derrida's legal times : decision, declaration, deferral, and event / Bernadette Meyler -- Derrida' s Shylock : the letter and the life of law / Katrin Trüstedt -- A postmodern hetoimasia : feigning sovereignty during the state of exception / Marinos Diamantides -- Contra iurem : Giorgio Agamben's two ontologies / Laurent de Sutter -- Cities of refuge, rebel cities, and the city to come / Giovanna Borradori -- Ghost stories : spectrality, electoral reform, and the question of Hong Kong identity in Marcus Woo's Find Ghost Do the CE / Marco Wan -- Appearing under erasure : of war, disappearance, and the contretemps / Allen Feldman.…”
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Speaking pictures : the visual/verbal nexus of dramatic performance

Table of Contents: “…Visualizing and performing Jewishness: Jews and "shylocks" on stage from the restoration to late romanticism / Fernando Cioni -- Dramatic illusion and sympathetic curiosity in romantic drama / Lilla Maria Crisafulli -- Actors' Bodies. …”
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Diaspora, law and literature

Table of Contents: “…"Let the God not abandon us" -- The Poetry of Derek Mahon Cultural Mobility and Diaspora: The Case of Philip Roth's Operation Shylock ; Cultural Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.…”
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Playful and serious : Philip Roth as a comic writer

Table of Contents: “…A comic crisis of faith : Philip Roth's "Conversion of the Jews" and "Eli, the fanatic" / Timothy Parrish -- Philip Roth's comic realism in Goodbye, Columbus / Victoria Aarons -- Masturbation and its discontents; or, Serious relief : Freudian comedy in Portnoy's complaint / David Brauner -- Affairs of the breast : Philip Roth and David Kepesh / Judith Yaross Lee -- The body in shame : Philip Roth's physical comedy / David Gilotta -- Plots against America : language and the comedy of conspiracy in Philip Roth's early fiction / Derek Parker Royal -- The myths of summer : Philip Roth's The great American novel / Ben Siegel -- Operation Shylock : the double, the comic, and the quest for identity / Elaine Safer -- Roth's Falstaff : transgressive humor in Sabbath's theater / Peter Scheckner -- Sabbath's complaint : Philip Roth's black comedy in Sabbath's theater / Gurumurthy Neelakantan -- Deadly farce in the comedy of Philip Roth / Jay L. …”
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Shakespeare's festive comedy ; a study of dramatic form and its relation to social custom. by Barber, C. L. (Cesar Lombardi)

Table of Contents: “…Comical/menacing mechanism in Shylock. The community setting aside its machinery. …”


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Political Agape : Christian Love and Liberal Democracy. by Jackson, Timothy P.

Table of Contents: “…Euthanasia and Capital Punishment: Christianity and the Right to Death; 10. Both Shylock and Oedipus: Why Many Accounts of Christian Complicity in the Holocaust Are Only Half Right; 11. …”
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Traditions in American literature ; a study of Jewish characters and authors by Mersand, Joseph (Joseph E.), 1907-1981

Table of Contents: “…Part one: Jewish authors -- Jewish dramatists and the contemporary drama -- George S Kaufman: master of the technique of good theatre -- Elmer Rice: realist of the drama -- Clifford Odets: anatomist of frustration -- S N Behrman and the American comedy of manners -- Irwin Shaw -- Bella and Samuel Spewack -- Jewish novelists and the contemporary American novel -- Jewish novelists portray the Jew, 1867-1939 -- Robert Nathan: master of style and mood -- Ben Hecht: The re-discovery of the artist -- Jewish poets in America in the nineteenth century -- Contemporary Jewish poets in America -- Part two: The Jew as portrayed in American literature -- A survey of three centuries -- The American drama presents the Jew -- Farewell to Shylocks and Fagins -- Righteousness above compromise: noble Jewish literary types -- The Jew in war and peace -- Victims of Nazism as portrayed in American drama -- Part three: Bibliographies -- A list of novels and short stories of interest to students of Jewish life in America -- A list of plays of interests to students of Jewish life in America -- Volumes of poetry by contemporary Jewish poets in America -- Autobiographies of American Jews -- Biographies written by American Jews -- Books and criticism and belles-lettres -- General bibliography.…”


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Shakespeare's early comedies by Tillyard, E. M. W. (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall), 1889-1962

Table of Contents: “…V: Romancevi: Comedy; Chapter V: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA; i: The Central Flaw; ii: The Love Theme; iii: The Principle of the Corrective; iv: Anticipations; v: Conclusion; Chapter VI: LOVE''S LABOUR''S LOST; i: Initial Discouragement; ii: The Mocking of the Male Adolescence; iii: The Feast of Words; iv: The Characters; v: The Overriding Theme; vi: The End; Chapter VII: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE; i: Presuppositions: Advisable and Inadvisable; ii: Shylock; iii: Bassanio and Antonio; iv: The Total Effect; v: The Fifth Act; Appendix.…”
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The theatrical manager in England and America : player of a perilous game by Henslowe, Philip

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The Jew of Malta

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Roth after eighty : Philip Roth and the American literary imagination

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- After Eighty : Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination / Aimee Pozorski -- Every third thought shall be my grave" : Roth, Memento Mori, and Story / Debra Shostak -- Roth @ 25 : Publishing Goodbye, Columbus / Ira Nadel -- "A Human Being Lives Here" : Philip Roth on Scandals and the American Presidency / Claudia Franziska Brühwiler -- "With an accomplice no less brilliant than Jean Genet" : A Comparative Approach to Roth's Autofiction / Patrick Hayes -- Performance Anxiety : Impotence, Queerness, and the"Drama of Self-Disgust" in Philip Roth's The Professor of Desire and The Humbling / David Brauner -- Stalkers, Furies, and Comforters : Roth's Grave Comedy of Persecution / Aurélie Guillain -- "I told my wrath, my Roth did grow" : Anger in Operation Shylock / Alex Calder -- "My Kinsmen, My Precursors" : Philip Roth, Epic, Influence, and Bardic Proclivities / Catherine Morley -- "I was the prosthesis" : Roth and Late Style / Adam Zachary Newton -- "[Sticking] to a plan completely" Performance, Affective Adaptation, Memory, Pretend Play and Suicide in Philip Roth's The Humbling / Amy Gelbart -- Newark : The Shtetl / Mark Shechner -- Afterword -- Mark Shechner's Legacy / David Gooblar.…”
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Next year in Jerusalem : exile and return in Jewish history

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- returning to Jewish theology: further reflections on Franz Rosenzweig / Jean Alexrad Cahan -- Exile and return: Indian Jews and the politics of homecoming / Joseph Hodes -- Against the Sabra current: Hanokh Bartov's 'Each had six wings' and the embrace of diasporic vitality / Philip Hollander -- Shylock and the ghetto, or East European Jewish culture and Israeli identity / Dror Abend-David -- Exile and Zionism in the writings of Rav Shagar / Shlomo Abramovich -- The role of the Temple Mount Faithful Movement in changing Messianic religious Zionists' attitude toward the Temple Mount / Mordechai Inbari.…”
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The Jew of Malta

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Jewish theatre : a global view

Table of Contents: “…Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa.…”
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