From Stereotype to Metaphor: The Jew in Contemporary DramaWho is a Jew? What is a Jew? In this all-encompassing study, Dr. Schiff probes these questions to help explain the prominence of Jewish characters in drama since World War II. The Jew has evolved into one of the most popular personages on the contemporary stage.Dramatists, both Jew and Gentile, in the United States and Europe, have been mining recently introduced concepts of the Jew to create a highly diversified and unfamiliar breed of dramatis personae. From Stereotype to Metaphor tracks the evolution of the Jewish persona on the stage. From the debut of the Jew on the Western stage in the Middle Ages to the present century, Dr. Schiff investigates how the Jew has evolved from the stereotypical figures of biblical patriarchs, moneymen and villains into latter-day everyman. This book traces the line of descent of the stage Jew from church drama, Shakespeare, Milton, and Racine to modern playwrights, including Miller, Gibson, Pinter, Wesker, Anouilh, Grumberg, and Woody Allen, concentrating on the development of the stage Jew since 1945. |
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書目資訊
| 書名 | From Stereotype to Metaphor: The Jew in Contemporary Drama SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture UPCC book collections on Project MUSE |
| 作者 | Ellen Schiff |
| 出版者 | SUNY Press, 2012 |
| ISBN | 1438418949, 9781438418940 |
| 頁數 | 275 頁 |
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