TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saskia Zinsser-Krys
PY  - 2017
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631715284
TI  - The Early Modern Stage-Jew
T2  - Heritage, Inspiration, and Concepts – With the first edition of Nathaniel Wiburne’s «Machiavellus»
DO  - 10.3726/b10763
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054803
N2  - This book investigates the contemporary conceptions of the Jewish figure on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Taking on what has been said about Shakespeare’s Shylock and Marlowe’s Barabas in the last centuries, the author analyses seven other, largely ignored plays to enhance the image we have today of the early modern stage-Jew. In tracing the image of Jewish figures in medieval literature and in early modern travel reports, the foundation of the Elizabethan idea of ‘Jewishness’ is laid out. Further, the author challenges some arguments which have become axiomatic over time, such as the notion of the red-haired, hook-nosed comical villain. The book also contains a first edition of the Latin university play «Machiavellus» by Nathaniel Wiburne, accomplished by Michael Becker and Saskia Zinsser-Krys.
KW  - The Travails of the three English Brothers, A Christian turn’d Turke, Shylock, Barabas, William Shakespeare, Canterbury Tales, Christopher Marlowe
LA  - English
ER  -