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Conversations with Shylock: "The Merchant of Venice", Authorship Trouble, and Interpretive Instability in the Period of Early Print
Ist Teil von
Texas studies in literature and language, 2016-03, Vol.58 (1), p.84-107
Ort / Verlag
Austin: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article asserts that where The Merchant of Venice is also a Venetian play in which lying figures prominently, it demands, even more so than Othello, an emphasis on the exacting details of the narrative construct as well as, at times, extreme literalism in the exegesis. Pointedly, extreme literalism and an exacting emphasis on the sequence of events are called for, emphasized, and made explicit in the text. It ironically suggests that if for formal, comedic, and thematic reasons the authors accept her engagement of literalistic reading, they may want to turn that level of literalism back upon the totality of the text itself. Likewise, while scholars have generally not emphasized the level of narrative exactitude this article employs, MV is remarkably detailed in articulating and reiterating the timeframe for the first two acts of Venetian action. This essay takes those details as the warrant to emphasize and unpack the limits and specifics of the possibilities for the plotting.