The Jew: a Comedy. Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane

by Richard Cumberland

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. 4 , 76, 1 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Early 20th-century 3/4 blue calf gilt, covers detached; contents toned, title lightly soiled, with minor stains. Item #212226 Cumberland . . . tried to reverse the image of the Jew created by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice . . . In the person of Sheva, Cumberland brought a new kind of Jew to the English stage. Sheva, like Shylock, is a usurer, hustled and

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