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

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.

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