Gross, Kenneth — Shylock Is Shakespeare

Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006. XII,202 pp. Very good copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Marvelously speculative and articulate, Gross's book argues that Shylock is a breakthrough for Shakespeare the playwright, an early realization of the Bards power to create dramatic voices that speak for hidden, unconscious, even inhuman impulses, characters larger than the plays that contain them and ready to escape the authors control.