Indian beauty and foreign spirits: the golden casket in the merchant of Venice
| dc.contributor.author | Mackenzie, C. | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | Link to a related website: http://real.mtak.hu/37416/1/062.2015.68.4.6.pdf, Open Access via Unpaywall | |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Acta Orientalia, 2015; 68(4):467-474 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1556/062.2015.68.4.6 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0001-6446 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1588-2667 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/118958 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Akademiai Kiado Rt | |
| dc.rights | Copyright 2015 Akadémiai Kiadó | |
| dc.source.uri | http://real.mtak.hu/37416/1/062.2015.68.4.6.pdf | |
| dc.subject | Bassanio | |
| dc.subject | caskets | |
| dc.subject | fortune | |
| dc.subject | gold | |
| dc.subject | iconography | |
| dc.subject | Morocco | |
| dc.subject | Portia | |
| dc.subject | shakespeare | |
| dc.title | Indian beauty and foreign spirits: the golden casket in the merchant of Venice | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| pubs.publication-status | Published | |
| ror.mmsid | 9916038574701831 |