The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_486
dc.creator	Bassi Shaul
dc.creator	Chillington Rutter Carol
dc.title	The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto
dc.type	Edited book
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.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.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi e ricerche
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-503-2
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-06-10
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-504-9/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-993X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9123
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-504-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-503-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Murray Abraham
dc.subject	F
dc.subject	Adrian Beecham
dc.subject	Mercy
dc.subject	History
dc.subject	Chromaticism
dc.subject	Ciro Pinsuti
dc.subject	Ruth Bader Ginsburg
dc.subject	Shylock
dc.subject	Charles and Mary Lamb
dc.subject	Adaptation
dc.subject	Music
dc.subject	Holocaust
dc.subject	Antonio
dc.subject	Lorenzo
dc.subject	The Merchant of Venice
dc.subject	Josef B
dc.subject	Laurence Olivier
dc.subject	Antisemitism
dc.subject	The quality of mercy
dc.subject	Compagnia de’ Colombari
dc.subject	Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
dc.subject	Opera
dc.subject	Music design
dc.subject	Humanities
dc.subject	Lancelot Gobbo
dc.subject	The Merchant of Venice in the Ghetto
dc.subject	Children reading Shakespeare
dc.subject	Directing Shakespeare
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Costume design
dc.subject	Reynaldo Hahn
dc.subject	Mock Appeal: Shylock v
dc.subject	Aestheticism
dc.subject	Adapting Shakespeare
dc.subject	Karin Coonrod
dc.subject	Actors on Shakespeare
dc.subject	Jessica
dc.subject	Shakespeare’s trial scenes
dc.subject	Narrativization
dc.subject	Children’s literature
dc.subject	Gratiano
dc.subject	Aldo Finzi
dc.subject	Site-specific design
dc.subject	Shakespeare’s comedies of love
dc.subject	Otto Taubmann
dc.subject	Mock Trial: Shylock v
dc.subject	Fiction
dc.subject	Performing Shakespeare
dc.subject	Ghetto
dc.subject	Lighting design
dc.subject	Theatre design
dc.subject	Site specific performance
dc.subject	Site-specific Shakespeare
dc.subject	Jews
dc.subject	Lewis Carroll
dc.subject	George Braque and Shakespeare
dc.subject	Designing Shakespeare
dc.subject	Bassanio
dc.subject	Heritage
dc.subject	Foerster
dc.subject	Portia
dc.subject	Rehearsal
dc.subject	Venice
dc.subject	Site-specific performance
dc.subject	Translation

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The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto

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Shaul Bassi Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Carol Chillington Rutter University of Warwick, UK

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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: Murray Abraham. F. Adrian Beecham. Mercy. History. Chromaticism. Ciro Pinsuti. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Shylock. Charles and Mary Lamb. Adaptation. Music. Holocaust. Antonio. Lorenzo. The Merchant of Venice. Josef B. Laurence Olivier. Antisemitism. The quality of mercy. Compagnia de’ Colombari. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Opera. Music design. Humanities. Lancelot Gobbo. The Merchant of Venice in the Ghetto. Children reading Shakespeare. Directing Shakespeare. Memory. Costume design. Reynaldo Hahn. Mock Appeal: Shylock v. Aestheticism. Adapting Shakespeare. Karin Coonrod. Actors on Shakespeare. Jessica. Shakespeare’s trial scenes. Narrativization. Children’s literature. Gratiano. Aldo Finzi. Site-specific design. Shakespeare’s comedies of love. Otto Taubmann. Mock Trial: Shylock v. Fiction. Performing Shakespeare. Ghetto. Lighting design. Theatre design. Site specific performance. Site-specific Shakespeare. Jews. Lewis Carroll. George Braque and Shakespeare. Designing Shakespeare. Bassanio. Heritage. Foerster. Portia. Rehearsal. Venice. Site-specific performance. Translation.

Published: June 10, 2021

Language: en

ISBN (print): 978-88-6969-504-9 ISBN (ebook): 978-88-6969-503-2

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-503-2

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