Better "A Well-Trained Werewolf" Than "A Jewish Wolf in Philosophical Sheep's Clothing"?: Heine and Litter-ary Jews.
In the Jessica chapter of his 1838 Shakespeare's Maidens and Women , Heinrich Heine provocatively identified Shylock as a "well-trained werewolf." Was Heine also alluding to the characterization of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's eponymous protagonist Nathan the Wise as a "Jewish wolf in philosophical sh...
| Publicado en: | Prooftexts Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 94 - 117 |
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2023
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