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

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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