How Long to Read Shakespeare's Shylock and Attitudes Towards Him in Socio-historical Context

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It takes the average reader 1 hour and 1 minute to read Shakespeare's Shylock and Attitudes Towards Him in Socio-historical Context by Miriam Weinmann

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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Trier, course: Literaturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The precise date for the composition of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" is unknown (Cerasano 97), but it must have been written "sometime between 1596 and 1598" (Gross 19). It was first printed in 1600 (Cerasano 2), with the title: "The most excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the Iewe towards the sayd Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his fleshe: and the obtayning of Portia by the choyse of three chests. As it hath beene divers times acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his servants" (Alexander 8). This title might give the one or other reader food for thought. It implies that Shakespeare's contemporaries must have seen the play, especially the character Shylock, "in dissimilar terms" from us nowadays (Cerasano 55). The following work will shed some light on the changes in reception and interpretation of "The Merchant of Venice", which have developed from the time of its creation until today, which is an absolutely natural process, as "texts change with time and audience" (Alexander 90). To get to the bottom of these changes, especially the character Shylock and the attitudes of the audiences of the different centuries towards him have to be brought into focus. This work will show in what ways these attitudes and thus the reception have changed and where these changes derive from. In addition to that, a selection of suggestions made by twentieth-century critics for interpreting the play, as it might have been meant to be by Shakespeare, will be introduced. His underlying intention has been debated over very much, which has given rise to an abundance of divergent interpretations, especially about how Shylock has to be assessed and how Shakespeare himself saw him. To find an

How long is Shakespeare's Shylock and Attitudes Towards Him in Socio-historical Context?

Shakespeare's Shylock and Attitudes Towards Him in Socio-historical Context by Miriam Weinmann is 61 pages long, and a total of 15,311 words.

This makes it 21% the length of the average book. It also has 19% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Shakespeare's Shylock and Attitudes Towards Him in Socio-historical Context Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 23 minutes to read Shakespeare's Shylock and Attitudes Towards Him in Socio-historical Context aloud.

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