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Volume 25 | Miscellanea | The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto
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 Otto Taubmann • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco • Opera • The Merchant in the Ghetto • Antonio • Lighting design • Shakespeare’s comedies of love • Charles and Mary Lamb • George Braque and Shakespeare • Lewis Carroll • Music • The quality of mercy • Theatre design • Mercy • Antisemitism • Mock Trial: Shylock v • The Merchant of Venice • Aestheticism • Ciro Pinsuti • Shylock • The Merchant of Venice in the Ghetto • Rehearsal • Josef B • Directing Shakespeare • Chromaticism • Performing Shakespeare • Foerster • Shakespeare’s trial scenes • Designing Shakespeare • Aldo Finzi • Children’s literature • Heritage • Site-specific Shakespeare • Karin Coonrod • Fiction • Memory • Children reading Shakespeare • Translation • Lancelot Gobbo • Laurence Olivier • Jews • Murray Abraham • Actors on Shakespeare • Holocaust • F • Music design • Jessica • Adrian Beecham • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Site-specific performance • Narrativization • Reynaldo Hahn • Compagnia de’ Colombari • Adapting Shakespeare • Humanities • Mock Appeal: Shylock v • Costume design • Bassanio • Gratiano • Ghetto • History • Lorenzo • Site-specific design • Venice • Site specific performance • Adaptation • Portia
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.
Part 1. Making The Merchant in the Ghetto
Part 2. Taking The Merchant Beyond the Ghetto