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Volume 25 | Edited book | The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto

The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto

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

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 | Number of pages 238 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published June 10, 2021 | Language 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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