The Jew: A Comedy. Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane WITH The Jew and The Adopted Child BROADSIDE POSTER

by Richard Cumberland

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London: 1795/ 1797. 1 The Jew: A Comedy. Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry. 1797. Sixth edition. 8vo. 64, 2 pp. Modern three-quarter calf over marbled boards with gold lettered red title-label. English dramatist Richard Cumberland wrote The Jew in 1794, attempting to reverse the image of the Jew created by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice almost 200 years earlier. Critics today still argue over Shakespeare's play's stance on

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