Medea and The Merchant of Venice

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1353/sel.2020.0014

Elizabeth Hutcheon

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Abstract:In the early modern period, Medea functioned as a microcosm of anxiety about the role of women in the educational process: figured as the frightening mother that schoolboys were invited to abandon in the schoolroom, she also was used there as a rhetorical model. This essay argues that The Merchant of Venice—a play that has more references to the Medea story than any other by Shakespeare—negotiates this apparent contradiction. By providing his marginalized characters with rhetorical prowess, Shakespeare both invests them with power—clearly evident in Portia—and mitigates their threat by rendering it intelligible, as with Shylock.

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES-

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期刊介绍： SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.

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