Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
JTD
Angaben zur Quelle:
7-8 (2001-2002) 95-104
Schlagwort(e):
Stow, John,
;
Marlowe, Christopher,
;
Shakespeare, William,
;
Antisemitism History 1500-1800
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
Kurzfassung:
Discusses how the ghetto was indirectly represented by focusing on the house as the emblem of Jewish space in three works of the Elizabethan imagination. John Stow's "Survey of London" (1590s), in one case, reconstructed topographically the living space of a medieval Jewish tenant. Christopher Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta" suggests that the confiscation and conversion of the Jew's mansion into a nunnery reflects the arbitrary and authoritarian force that created the early modern ghetto. Although Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" did not portray the ghetto of that city, it foregrounded Shylock's house, which was contiguous with Christian space and vulnerable to it, as reflected by Shylock's loss to Christians of his fortune and his daughter. Concludes that this indirect approach to the ghetto implies that, while space is created for Jews, it always remains under siege.
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