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Volume 25 | Edited book | The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto

The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto

open access
    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 Lancelot GobboGeorge Braque and ShakespeareTranslationChildren reading ShakespeareDesigning ShakespeareCiro PinsutiTheatre designMemoryKarin CoonrodShakespeare’s comedies of loveSite specific performanceAdaptationJewsMusicRuth Bader GinsburgMock Appeal: Shylock vDirecting ShakespeareOperaAestheticismThe quality of mercyLighting designHumanitiesVeniceSite-specific performanceThe Merchant of Venice in the GhettoAldo FinziShakespeare’s trial scenesMock Trial: Shylock vMercyAdrian BeechamCharles and Mary LambLorenzoMurray AbrahamFictionActors on ShakespeareAntisemitismMusic designHeritageFFoersterOtto TaubmannThe Merchant of VeniceBassanioCostume designSite-specific designChildren’s literatureAntonioReynaldo HahnSite-specific ShakespeareHistoryPerforming ShakespeareChromaticismCompagnia de’ ColombariLewis CarrollThe Merchant in the GhettoAdapting ShakespeareJessicaGhettoMario Castelnuovo-TedescoHolocaustGratianoJosef BNarrativizationShylockRehearsalLaurence OlivierPortia

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