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Volume 25 | Edited book | The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto
The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto
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edited by
- Shaul Bassi - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
- Carol Chillington Rutter - University of Warwick, UK - email
Abstract
This book records the landmark performance of The Merchant of Venice in the Venetian Ghetto in 2016, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the 500th anniversary of the Jewish quarter that gave the world the word ‘ghetto’. Practitioners and critics discuss how this multi-ethnic production and its radical choice to cast five actors as Shylock provided the opportunity to respond creatively to Europe’s legacy of antisemitism, racism and difference. They observe how the place and play stand as ambivalent documents of civilization: instruments of intolerance but also sites of cultural exchange.
Keywords Designing Shakespeare • Shakespeare’s comedies of love • Shakespeare’s trial scenes • Children’s literature • Chromaticism • Foerster • Music design • Shylock • Venice • Costume design • The Merchant of Venice in the Ghetto • Murray Abraham • Theatre design • Music • Children reading Shakespeare • Antisemitism • Fiction • Reynaldo Hahn • Lancelot Gobbo • Aestheticism • Bassanio • Laurence Olivier • Actors on Shakespeare • Aldo Finzi • Lorenzo • Opera • Antonio • Lighting design • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Gratiano • Adrian Beecham • George Braque and Shakespeare • Site-specific Shakespeare • Heritage • Otto Taubmann • Site-specific design • The quality of mercy • Holocaust • Karin Coonrod • Memory • Rehearsal • Translation • Jews • Mock Appeal: Shylock v • Mercy • Josef B • Compagnia de’ Colombari • F • Performing Shakespeare • The Merchant of Venice • The Merchant in the Ghetto • Lewis Carroll • Mock Trial: Shylock v • Adapting Shakespeare • Adaptation • Jessica • Ghetto • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco • Portia • Site specific performance • History • Ciro Pinsuti • Site-specific performance • Humanities • Narrativization • Directing Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-503-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-503-2 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-504-9 | Number of pages 238 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published June 10, 2021 | Language en
Copyright © 2021 Shaul Bassi, Carol Chillington Rutter. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
- Introduction
- June 10, 2021
Part 1. Making The Merchant in the Ghetto
- “Shylock is Dead”: Shakespeare In and Beyond the Ghetto
- June 10, 2021
- Gathering Strangers
- June 10, 2021
- The Actors Speak
- June 10, 2021
- Playing the Angles: Finding Shylock and Gratiano
- June 10, 2021
Part 2. Taking The Merchant Beyond the Ghetto
- The Merchant ‘in’ Venice and The Shylock Project: Fiction, History, and the Humanities
- June 10, 2021
- Shylock, Our Contemporary
- June 10, 2021
- Shylock’s Mock Appeal
- June 10, 2021
- Trying Portia
- June 10, 2021
