Shylock. A Legend And Its Legacy

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Simon And Schuster
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1992
Edition: First Edition

Description: 386 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Like Don Quixote Or Robinsn Crusoe, Shylock Is One Of The Great Familiar Figures Of World Drama, Known Even To People Who Have Never Read Or Seen The Merchant Of Venice.

Publishers Description: Shylock, Shakespeare's moneylender from The Merchant of Venice has attained a legendary stature, capturing the imagination of each new generation of actors, writers, thinkers, and readers. Literary/theater critic Gross presents a wide-ranging cultural study of the controversial character who has inspired the likes of Marcel Proust, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, and Erica Jong.

ISBN: 9780671707071