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Volume 25 | Miscellanea | The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto

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 Otto TaubmannMario Castelnuovo-TedescoOperaThe Merchant in the GhettoAntonioLighting designShakespeare’s comedies of loveCharles and Mary LambGeorge Braque and ShakespeareLewis CarrollMusicThe quality of mercyTheatre designMercyAntisemitismMock Trial: Shylock vThe Merchant of VeniceAestheticismCiro PinsutiShylockThe Merchant of Venice in the GhettoRehearsalJosef BDirecting ShakespeareChromaticismPerforming ShakespeareFoersterShakespeare’s trial scenesDesigning ShakespeareAldo FinziChildren’s literatureHeritageSite-specific ShakespeareKarin CoonrodFictionMemoryChildren reading ShakespeareTranslationLancelot GobboLaurence OlivierJewsMurray AbrahamActors on ShakespeareHolocaustFMusic designJessicaAdrian BeechamRuth Bader GinsburgSite-specific performanceNarrativizationReynaldo HahnCompagnia de’ ColombariAdapting ShakespeareHumanitiesMock Appeal: Shylock vCostume designBassanioGratianoGhettoHistoryLorenzoSite-specific designVeniceSite specific performanceAdaptationPortia

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

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