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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 Site specific performanceGratianoActors on ShakespeareHolocaustSite-specific designMemoryAntonioThe Merchant of VeniceAntisemitismLewis CarrollVeniceChromaticismShakespeare’s comedies of loveMock Trial: Shylock vMock Appeal: Shylock vThe Merchant in the GhettoLancelot GobboGeorge Braque and ShakespeareDesigning ShakespeareMusic designPerforming ShakespeareRehearsalHeritageJessicaAestheticismJewsCompagnia de’ ColombariLaurence OlivierSite-specific ShakespeareBassanioPortiaKarin CoonrodRuth Bader GinsburgGhettoFictionNarrativizationThe quality of mercyLorenzoJosef BChildren reading ShakespeareOtto TaubmannReynaldo HahnLighting designCostume designTheatre designAldo FinziHistoryShakespeare’s trial scenesFoersterCiro PinsutiCharles and Mary LambHumanitiesShylockFAdaptationDirecting ShakespeareMercyMario Castelnuovo-TedescoAdrian BeechamSite-specific performanceTranslationMurray AbrahamChildren’s literatureOperaMusicAdapting ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice in the Ghetto

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