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

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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