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The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto
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- 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 Ciro Pinsuti • Ghetto • Shakespeare’s trial scenes • Bassanio • Site-specific Shakespeare • Designing Shakespeare • Humanities • Venice • Adaptation • Adapting Shakespeare • Foerster • Lancelot Gobbo • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Site-specific design • Chromaticism • Children reading Shakespeare • Aldo Finzi • Holocaust • Josef B • Theatre design • Directing Shakespeare • Karin Coonrod • Otto Taubmann • Reynaldo Hahn • F • Lewis Carroll • Adrian Beecham • Rehearsal • History • Aestheticism • The Merchant of Venice in the Ghetto • The Merchant of Venice • Mock Trial: Shylock v • Antonio • Children’s literature • George Braque and Shakespeare • Compagnia de’ Colombari • Laurence Olivier • Mock Appeal: Shylock v • Opera • Actors on Shakespeare • Fiction • Jews • The Merchant in the Ghetto • Shylock • Gratiano • Lorenzo • Site-specific performance • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco • Narrativization • Translation • Mercy • Performing Shakespeare • Heritage • Music design • Antisemitism • The quality of mercy • Jessica • Murray Abraham • Charles and Mary Lamb • Lighting design • Costume design • Memory • Portia • Shakespeare’s comedies of love • Site specific performance • Music
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 | Numero pagine 238 | Dimensioni 16x23cm | Pubblicato 10 Giugno 2021 | Lingua 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
- 10 Giugno 2021
Part 1. Making The Merchant in the Ghetto
- “Shylock is Dead”: Shakespeare In and Beyond the Ghetto
- 10 Giugno 2021
- Gathering Strangers
- 10 Giugno 2021
- The Actors Speak
- 10 Giugno 2021
- Playing the Angles: Finding Shylock and Gratiano
- 10 Giugno 2021
Part 2. Taking The Merchant Beyond the Ghetto
- The Merchant ‘in’ Venice and The Shylock Project: Fiction, History, and the Humanities
- 10 Giugno 2021
- Shylock, Our Contemporary
- 10 Giugno 2021
- Shylock’s Mock Appeal
- 10 Giugno 2021
- Trying Portia
- 10 Giugno 2021
