Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bannet, Eve Tavor

Titel

Cumberland’s Benevolent Hebrew in Eighteenth-Century Britain and America

Ist Teil von

• Studies in American Jewish literature (1981), 2014-03, Vol.33 (1), p.84-106

Ort / Verlag

Penn State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• ABSTRACT This essay uses the different contemporary reactions of British critics and Jews to uncover the different facets of Richard Cumberland's understudied play The Jew (1794), which help to explain its enormous popularity among gentiles and the lack of enthusiasm among Jews, then moves across the Atlantic to examine the very different reception the play received from reviewers and audiences in America.