Wrestling with Shylock (eBook, ePUB)

Jewish Responses to The Merchant of Venice
Redaktion: Nahshon, Edna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice occupies a unique place in world culture. As the fictional, albeit iconic, character of Shylock has been interpreted as exotic outsider, social pariah, melodramatic villain and tragic victim, the play, which has been performed and read in dozens of languages, has served as a lens for examining ideas and images of the Jew at various historical moments. In the last two hundred years, many of the play's stage interpreters, spectators, readers and adapters have themselves been Jews, whose responses are often embedded in literary, theatrical and musical works. This volume examines the ever-expanding body of Jewish responses to Shakespeare's most Jewishly relevant play.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108161121
• Artikelnr.: 49047090

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Edna Nahshon; Part I. Introductions: 1. Literary sources and
theatrical interpretations of Shylock Michael Shapiro; 2. The anti-Shylock
campaign in America Edna Nahshon; Part II. Discourses: 3. Shylock in
German-Jewish historiography Abigail Gillman; 4. Yiddish Shylocks in
theater and literature Nina Warnke and Jeffrey Shandler; 5. Lawyers and
judges address Shylock's case Richard H. Weisberg; Part III. The Stage: 6.
David Belasco's 1922 production of The Merchant of Venice Marc Hodin; 7.
New York City, 1947: a season for Shylocks Edna Nahshon; 8. The Merchant of
Venice in mandatory Palestine and the state of Israel Shelley Zer-Zion; 9.
Fritz Kortner and other German-Jewish Shylocks before and after the
Holocaust Jeanette Malkin; 10. Evoking the Holocaust in George Tabori's
productions of The Merchant of Venice Sabine Schülting; 11. The Merchant of
Venice on the German stage and the 1995 'Buchenwald' production in Weimar
Gad Kaynar-Kissinger; 12. Recasting Shakespeare's Jew in Wesker's Shylock
Efraim Sicher; 13. Jewish directors and Jewish Shylocks in
twentieth-century England Miriam Gilbert; Part IV. Literature, Art and
Music: 14. Zionism in Ludwig Lewisohn's novel, The Last Days of Shylock
Michael Shapiro; 15. Jessica's Jewish identity in contemporary feminist
novels Michelle Ephraim; 16. Christian iconography and Jewish accommodation
in Maurycy Gottlieb's painting, 'Shylock and Jessica' Susan Chevlowe; 17.
Shylock in opera, 1871-2014 Judah M. Cohen; Part V. Postscript: 18. Shylock
and the Arab-Israel conflict Edna Nahshon; Index.