in the play, what may be termed Shylock’s self-justification. The two words are ‘revenge’ and ‘villainy’. … If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example
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The Word of the Lord to Shylock
Biblical Forms in the Translations of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice to Hebrew
Atar Hadari
A Structure of Antipathy
Constructing the Villain in Narrative Film
Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen
laudable. The article builds a “structure of antipathy,” an analytical framework that breaks filmic villainy into guilty intentionality, consequential action, and causal responsibility. Villains intend and desire bad outcomes (intentionality), bring about
Happiness Against All Odds
Incestuous Desires in John Ford's ’Tis Pity She's a Whore
Christoph Ehland
this. As there are no other points of moral orientation in the claustrophobic world of Ford's play, the question is implicitly asked who could provide Giovanni with guidance in his confused emotional state? Vasques's snide remark, ‘Yet the villainy of
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 94–104 (11 total)
Harvey's 1593 ‘To Be and Not To Be’
The Authorship and Date of the First Quarto of Hamlet
Dennis McCarthy
; that from a pleasant and wanton Comedy , finely played, return as merry as a cricket, and as light as a feather? … What say you to a spring of rankest Villainy in February and a harvest of ripest Divinity in May? May they not surcease to wonder
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 87–100 (14 total)
David Hawkes
the word ‘fair’ came to mean ‘beautiful’ as well as ‘equal’. When in George Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois , Charlotte is asked, ‘Shall we revenge a villainy with a villainy?’ she replies with the typical voice of the age: ‘It’s not equal?’ It is this
‘Which is the merchant here, and which the Jew?’
Alterity, Sameness and Irony in Venice
Anna Carleton Forrester
. Shylock goes on to say, ‘If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will
Thomas Luk
as ‘dark comedy’, to use J.L. Styan’s term, 10 and as such the play becomes more problematic, because Shakespeare seems to have portrayed Shylock as an arch-villain. 11 As if to accentuate the character’s villainy, Shakespeare resorted to contrasts
In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 186–195 (10 total)
Shylock in the Cinema
Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice
Maria-Clara Versiani Galery
want to make an anti-semitic [sic] film. But he has two problems. The first is the play. The second is the medium’. According to Freedland, the problem with Merchant is Shylock’s portrayal as a character whose ‘villainy’ is ‘overtly rooted in
In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 116–123 (8 total)
A New Kind of Monster, Cowboy, and Crusader?
Gender Hegemony and Flows of Masculinities in Pixar Animated Films
Elizabeth Al-Jbouri and Shauna Pomerantz
villainy and hegemonic masculinities, this link is partially refuted when other Disney villains of the time are taken into consideration. In earlier Disney animated films, the hegemonic man is positioned as the hero relative to a villainous woman (e
Hamlet and the 47 Ronin
Did Shakespeare Read Chushingura?
Graham Holderness
to Chushingura : the villainy of Moronao must be immediately perceptible by the audience, or the drama makes no sense. The modernising theatre director wants the more complex realisation of character proper to Western drama. This contrast is