MacKenzie, Clayton (2015) Indian Beauty and Foreign Spirits: The Golden Casket in The Merchant of Venice. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 68 (4). pp. 467-474. ISSN 0001-6446
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Abstract
The casket scenes in The Merchant of Venice are powerful arbiters of success and failure. The casket challenge is loaded with culturally-specific signifiers which favour local contenders. Bassanio rejects the gold casket because he is aware that European moral iconographies repudiate earthly wealth (though, ironically, Bassanio is a poor illustration of the principle). The Prince of Morocco, by contrast, understandably supposes gold to be an appropriate metaphor for love – gold was, after all, the prima materia of North Africa. Morocco is on every level more worthy than Bassanio but fails because he chooses through foreign eyes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World / történelem > D0 History (General) / történelem általában P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom |
| Depositing User: | Ágnes Sallai |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2016 07:03 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Dec 2017 00:16 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/37416 |
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