The Anti-Jewish Prejudice in Christopher Marlowe's "Jew of Malta," William Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" and Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Wicher, Andrzej.
The Anti-Jewish Prejudice in Christopher Marlowe's "Jew of Malta," William Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" and Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale."
- Published
- Iudaica Russica 1.4 (2020): 102-14.
- Description
- Compares the antisemitism in the three works, describing the Jews of PrT as "an undistinguished mass with no face, and no individuality, a mass that can instinctively react, if given a chance, against their Christian neighbour"; they are less distinct than the Jewish characters in Marlowe's and Shakespeare's works, perhaps attributable to the Prioress's parochiality and lack of human charity, but also typical of medieval and early modern England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations