Sara Coodin is assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches Renaissance literature and Shakespearean Drama. Raised and educated in Montréal, Québec, she learned Yiddish, Hebrew, and French at an early age, and came to the study of Shakespeare somewhat later during her graduate studies at McGill University. Her research focuses on questions of moral agency in Shakespeare and the multi-vocality of Shakespeare’s plays, including Shakespeare’s adaptation into other languages.

Sara Coodin demonstrates how The Merchant of Venice’s engagement with the Genesis narratives of Jacob resonates with centuries of rabbinic midrash, early modern Christian Hebraist exegesis and 20th-century Yiddish adaptations of the play to argue that Shakespeare’s play supports Jewish interpretations that would have been legible to his Christian audience.

• Introduction: Is Shylock Jewish?1. Renaissance England and the Jews 2. Parti-Coloured Parables3. Stolen Daughters and Stolen Idols4. Rebellious Daughters on the Yiddish StageConclusion

Sara Coodin is assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches Renaissance literature and Shakespearean Drama. Raised and educated in Montréal, Québec, she learned Yiddish, Hebrew, and French at an early age, and came to the study of Shakespeare somewhat later during her graduate studies at McGill University. Her research focuses on questions of moral agency in Shakespeare and the multi-vocality of Shakespeare’s plays, including Shakespeare’s adaptation into other languages.

Sara Coodin demonstrates how The Merchant of Venice’s engagement with the Genesis narratives of Jacob resonates with centuries of rabbinic midrash, early modern Christian Hebraist exegesis and 20th-century Yiddish adaptations of the play to argue that Shakespeare’s play supports Jewish interpretations that would have been legible to his Christian audience.

• Introduction: Is Shylock Jewish?1. Renaissance England and the Jews 2. Parti-Coloured Parables3. Stolen Daughters and Stolen Idols4. Rebellious Daughters on the Yiddish StageConclusion

Sara Coodin is assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches Renaissance literature and Shakespearean Drama. Raised and educated in Montréal, Québec, she learned Yiddish, Hebrew, and French at an early age, and came to the study of Shakespeare somewhat later during her graduate studies at McGill University. Her research focuses on questions of moral agency in Shakespeare and the multi-vocality of Shakespeare’s plays, including Shakespeare’s adaptation into other languages.

Sara Coodin demonstrates how The Merchant of Venice’s engagement with the Genesis narratives of Jacob resonates with centuries of rabbinic midrash, early modern Christian Hebraist exegesis and 20th-century Yiddish adaptations of the play to argue that Shakespeare’s play supports Jewish interpretations that would have been legible to his Christian audience.

• Introduction: Is Shylock Jewish?1. Renaissance England and the Jews 2. Parti-Coloured Parables3. Stolen Daughters and Stolen Idols4. Rebellious Daughters on the Yiddish StageConclusion