The Merchant ‘in’ Venice and The Shylock Project: Fiction, History,

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dc.contributor.author	Cartwright Kent
dc.title	The Merchant ‘in’ Venice and The Shylock Project: Fiction, History, and the Humanities
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The 2016 production of The Merchant of Venice staged a comedy famous for its antisemitic expressions in a place of symbolic significance to Jews, whose tragic history has resulted from exactly such sentiments. How, then, do we reconcile the experience of fiction with the claims of history? Certain of the production’s values created the sense of an aesthetically self-contained artifact, yet the performance also took place against the looming, inescapable realism of the ghetto itself – a tension that can be felt, too, in activities related to the production. Illuminated here is the power of humanities public events to reinvigorate, through questioning, the life of the human community.
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/the-merchant-in-venice-and-the-shylock-project-fic/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-503-2/006
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
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Aestheticism
dc.subject	Aestheticism
dc.subject	Antisemitism
dc.subject	Antisemitism
dc.subject	Fiction
dc.subject	Fiction
dc.subject	Ghetto
dc.subject	Ghetto
dc.subject	History
dc.subject	History
dc.subject	Humanities
dc.subject	Humanities
dc.subject	Mercy
dc.subject	Mercy

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The Merchant ‘in’ Venice and The Shylock Project: Fiction, History, and the Humanities

Kent Cartwright

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The 2016 production of The Merchant of Venice staged a comedy famous for its antisemitic expressions in a place of symbolic significance to Jews, whose tragic history has resulted from exactly such sentiments. How, then, do we reconcile the experience of fiction with the claims of history? Certain of the production’s values created the sense of an aesthetically self-contained artifact, yet the performance also took place against the looming, inescapable realism of the ghetto itself – a tension that can be felt, too, in activities related to the production. Illuminated here is the power of humanities public events to reinvigorate, through questioning, the life of the human community.

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June 10, 2021

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Keywords: History • Mercy • Aestheticism • Ghetto • Antisemitism • Humanities • Fiction

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