The Merchant of Venice 威尼斯商人 

基本信息

Author: William Shakespeare

Format: Paperback 368 pages

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

书号: 9780393925296

Published: 15 Nov 2011

Weight: 361g

Dimensions: 132 x 213 x 20 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

This Norton Critical Edition ha* been carefully edited to make The Merchant of Venice, its surrounding history, and the history of its critical reception and rewritings accessible to readers. The text of this edition i* based on the 1600 First Quarto, with light editing and substantial explanatory annotation by Leah S. Marcus.

"Sources and Contexts" largely focuses on the character of Shylock and the issue of anti-Semitism in the play. Materials included are diverse, and at times contradictory, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions. Examples include seventeenth-century anti-Semitic literature, an essay from the same period defending Jews and arguing for their repatriation in England, an examination of the Christian theology of the play, and readings of The Merchant of Venice as exclusionary for Jews, women, and people of color.

"Criticism" collects twenty-one diverse interpretations. In addition to Shylock and the question of anti-Semitism, these essays address The Merchant of Venice in the context of postcolonial, feminist, and queer theory and explore relevant issues of economic status and organization.

"Rewritings and Appropriations" includes excerpts from dramatic, musical, and other literary adaptations of The Merchant of Venice, as well as a selection of poems, most of them from the twentieth century, on the character of Shylock.

A Selected Bibliography is also included.

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这个版本的文本是基于1600第一个四开本，与由利亚S.马库斯轻编辑和实质性的解释性注解。

“来源和背景”主要集中在夏洛克这个角色和剧中的反犹太主义问题上。包括的材料是多样的，有时是矛盾的，让读者得出自己的结论。例子包括十七世纪的反犹太文学，同一时期的一篇文章为犹太人辩护，并为他们在英格兰的遣返争论，对戏剧的神学的审查，和解读威尼斯商人排斥犹太人，妇女，和有色人种。

“批评”收集了21种不同的解释。除了夏洛克和反犹太主义的问题，这些文章在后殖民、女权主义和酷儿理论的背景下探讨了《威尼斯商人》，并探讨了经济地位和组织的相关问题。

“改编和挪用”包括《威尼斯商人》戏剧、音乐和其他文学改编的节选，以及一些诗歌选集，这些诗歌大多出自20世纪，主题是夏洛克。

还包括一份选定的参考书目。

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作者简介

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.

Leah S. Marcus is Edwin Mims Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Childhood and Cultural Despair, Puzzling Shakespeare, and Unediting the Renaissance. She has edited two volumes of the writings of Queen Elizabeth I (with Janel Mueller and Mary Beth Rose), a Norton Critical Edition of The Merchant of Venice, and an Arden Early Modern Drama text of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.

威廉·莎士比亚(1564年4月26日- 1616年4月23日)是英国剧作家、诗人和演员，被广泛认为是最伟大的英语作家和世界上伟大的剧作家。

Leah S. Marcus是范德比尔特大学的Edwin Mims英语教授。她著有《童年与文化绝望》、《莫名其妙的莎士比亚》和《文艺复兴的Unediting》。她编辑了两卷伊丽莎白女王一世的著作(与珍妮·米勒和玛丽·贝丝·罗斯合著)，诺顿评论版的《威尼斯商人》和约翰·韦伯斯特的《马尔菲公爵夫人》的雅顿早期现代戏剧文本。