"Was Shylock Jewish?"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc386/
Author:
	Smith, Emma.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Quarterly 64, no.  2 (2013): 188–219.
Annotation:
	In challenging dominant modern critical assumptions about Shylock as Jew, explores the influence of Henry Irving's production (1879) on these assumptions, argues that much of early modern evidence of Shylock's Jewishness (for example, the stage Jew stereotype and the prejudice elicited by Roderigo Lopez affair) "has very little archival or historical basis," and concludes that Shylock's "Jewishness is contingent rather than essential--the Jew as semantic rather than as Semitic, property."
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Irving, Henry; Lopez, Roderigo
Keywords:
	Shylock; Jew; semantics
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Merchant of Venice
WSB Update:
	Fall 2013
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc386