The Merchant of Venice SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory

The Merchant of Venice SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist TheoryThis book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeares play The Merchant of Venice. Richly contextualised analyses of individual productions by major directors help produce a nuanced picture of the performance history of the play, guiding the reader from the 1930s through the early twenty first century.

interwoven with detailed accounts of relevant films

Many aspects of new interdisciplinary and collaborative practices are considered

philosophical and religious writings from Antiquity to the Renaissance and demonstrates that its early modern forms first appeared in the Essays and in Shakespearean drama

factual and fictive

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major research areas in sociology

National film production

‘Jane Austen and her Readers

In addition to these cutting-edge contributions

its cultural history and modern urban style

using key concepts from Bakhtin’s theory of dialogics