The Jew on Stage and on the Page: Intertextual Exotic

Michael Bradshaw

doi:10.3726/978-3-0353-0777-1

The Jew on Stage and on the Page: Intertextual Exotic

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Abstract

This essay considers the representation of Jewish characters and Jewishness in two lesser-known nineteenth-century British plays -- The Jew of Arragon; or, The Hebrew Queen by Thomas Wade, and Fazio by Henry Hart Milman. The plays are analysed in both textual and performance contexts, and in relation to debates about Judaism in British Romantic literature. The essay argues for a strong intertextual dimension in these dramatic representations of racial and cultural otherness, connecting Wade's and Milman's writing to key cultural reference points such as Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, Edmund Kean's performance of Shakespeare's Shylock, and William Hazlitt's groundbreaking review of this event.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Staging the Other in Nineteenth-Century British Drama
Editors	T. Morosetti
Place of Publication	Bern, Switzerland
Pages	41-60
Number of pages	20
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0777-1
Publication status	Published - 2016

Publication series

Name	Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
Publisher	Peter Lang AG

Keywords

English drama
literature
Jewish characters
Nineteenth century British plays

Access to Document

10.3726/978-3-0353-0777-1

http://eprints.worc.ac.uk/5986/

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