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Edited book | The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto
Chapter | Shylock’s Mock Appeal
Shylock’s Mock Appeal
- Howard Jacobson - Novelist and journalist -
Abstract
“What ceremony else?” asks Laertes in Hamlet. This essay raises the same question as regards the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and recounts Jacobson’s experience of The Merchant of Venice events in Venice that year. In particular, he reviews the “Mock Appeal in the Matter of Shylock versus Antonio” held in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, presided by Ruth Bader Ginsburg observing that “there was both absurdity and gravitas in having the infamous bond dissected by experts in the field”.
Published June 10, 2021 | Language: en
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- Introduction
- Shaul Bassi, Carol Chillington Rutter
- June 10, 2021
Part 1. Making The Merchant in the Ghetto
- “Shylock is Dead”: Shakespeare In and Beyond the Ghetto
- Shaul Bassi
- June 10, 2021
- Gathering Strangers
- Karin Coonrod, Davina Moss
- June 10, 2021
- Collaborative Spectacle: Designing The Merchant in the Ghetto
- Frank London, Stefano Nicolao, Peter Ksander
- June 10, 2021
- The Actors Speak
- Michele Athos Guidi, Jenni Lea-Jones, Linda Powell, Paul Spera, Francesca Sarah Toich, Michelle Uranowitz
- June 10, 2021
- Playing the Angles: Finding Shylock and Gratiano
- Sorab Wadia
- June 10, 2021
Part 2. Taking The Merchant Beyond the Ghetto
- The Merchant ‘in’ Venice and The Shylock Project: Fiction, History, and the Humanities
- Kent Cartwright
- June 10, 2021
- Shylock, Our Contemporary
- Clive Sinclair
- June 10, 2021
- Shylock’s Mock Appeal
- Howard Jacobson
- June 10, 2021
- Trying Portia
- Carol Chillington Rutter
- June 10, 2021
- Composing the Jew’s Soundscape in Operatic Versions of The Merchant of Venice
- Judah Cohen
- June 10, 2021
- “Antonio, il mercante della nostra storia”: Adapting The Merchant of Venice for Italian Children
- Laura Tosi
- June 10, 2021
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ECF_chapter_5834 |
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dc.contributor.author |
Jacobson Howard |
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dc.title |
Shylock’s Mock Appeal |
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Chapter |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.description.abstract |
“What ceremony else?” asks Laertes in Hamlet. This essay raises the same question as regards the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and recounts Jacobson’s experience of The Merchant of Venice events in Venice that year. In particular, he reviews the “Mock Appeal in the Matter of Shylock versus Antonio” held in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, presided by Ruth Bader Ginsburg observing that “there was both absurdity and gravitas in having the infamous bond dissected by experts in the field”. |
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Studi e ricerche |
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dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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dc.issued |
2021-06-10 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-504-9/shylocks-mock-appeal/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/978-88-6969-503-2/008 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2610-993X |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2610-9123 |
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dc.identifier.isbn |
978-88-6969-504-9 |
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dc.identifier.eisbn |
978-88-6969-503-2 |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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with fulltext |
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open |
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no |
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