Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Review of English Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
200 (1999) 440-462
Schlagwort(e):
Shakespeare, William,
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Antisemitism History 1500-1800
Kurzfassung:
After a comprehensive survey of the widely accepted belief in Jewish male menstruation, with its basis in religious and sexual stereotypes, argues that this idea and its link with ritual murder charges provide a new perspective from which to understand Shakespeare's Shylock. A parallel is drawn with a 17th-century Spanish work, where blood needed to heal Jewish male menstruation is the motive for ritual murder of Christians. Although the Jewish usurer in the Spanish story lives in Turkey, he is "clearly Shylock, driven in his lust for Christian blood by the divine affliction of male menstruation." The cultural stereotypes in this image, which involve blood, gender, and racism, anticipate modern racism.
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