“Shylock is Dead”: Shakespeare In and Beyond the Ghetto

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_5827
dc.contributor.author	Bassi Shaul
dc.title	“Shylock is Dead”: Shakespeare In and Beyond the Ghetto
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This essay relates the genesis of the project that led to the first performance of The Merchant of Venice in the Ghetto of Venice in 2016, the year of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Ghetto, the site that provided the world with the concept of the ‘ghetto’. The essay puts the relationship between Shakespeare and the Ghetto in historical perspective, starting from W.D. Howells’s visit to the Ghetto in the 1860s, through the point of view of a young Jewish Italian admirer of Shakespeare before and during Fascism, to the post-War transformations of the Ghetto and the present day.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi e ricerche
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-06-10
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-504-9/shylock-is-dead-shakespeare-in-and-beyond-the-ghet/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-503-2/001
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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item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Antisemitism
dc.subject	Antisemitism
dc.subject	Ghetto
dc.subject	Ghetto
dc.subject	Heritage
dc.subject	Heritage
dc.subject	Holocaust
dc.subject	Holocaust
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Shylock
dc.subject	Shylock
dc.subject	Venice
dc.subject	Venice

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“Shylock is Dead”: Shakespeare In and Beyond the Ghetto

Shaul Bassi Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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This essay relates the genesis of the project that led to the first performance of The Merchant of Venice in the Ghetto of Venice in 2016, the year of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Ghetto, the site that provided the world with the concept of the ‘ghetto’. The essay puts the relationship between Shakespeare and the Ghetto in historical perspective, starting from W.D. Howells’s visit to the Ghetto in the 1860s, through the point of view of a young Jewish Italian admirer of Shakespeare before and during Fascism, to the post-War transformations of the Ghetto and the present day.

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June 10, 2021

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978-88-6969-504-9

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Keywords: Holocaust • Memory • Ghetto • Heritage • Antisemitism • Venice • Shylock

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