The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel by Arnold Wesker

The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel

Arnold Wesker

400 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging reflective slow-paced
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Shakespeare's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, the epitome of money-grabbing avarice and cruelty is, Arnold Wesker believes, "a libel on the Jews" and a reflection of Elizabethan racism. Wesker, one of Britain's most revered playwrights, decided...

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