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Religion and the Arts 14 (2010) 647–661 brill.nl/rart RELIGION and the ARTS © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/156852910X529412 Book Reviews Adelman, Janet. Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in The Merchant of Venice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 226. $35.00 cloth. S hakespeare’s Merchant of Venice arouses complicated reactions today, most likely ones quite different than those elicited from its Elizabethan audience. In spite of Shakespeare’s ambiguous treatment of the Christians in the play, Shylock then could have aroused an unambiguous shiver of delight in his quintessential bogey-man malice, his embodiment of all that was hated and feared in the (stereotypical) “idea” of the Jew. Today, we find the play more troubling; the stories of romance and friendship are over- shadowed, almost, by the story of racial, ethnic, and religious hatred and prejudice. Shylock emerges as a sort of a hero, almost a tragic figure, as the 2004 Al Pacino version of the play, directed by Michael Redford, demon- strates. In the final scene of that film, Jessica appears as a troubled and conflicted figure, no longer so sure about her abandonment of her father and her search for acceptance among the Christians
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Published: Jan 1, 2010
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