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The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

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Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva's second edition of the stage history of The Merchant of Venice interweaves into the chronology of James Bulman's first edition richly contextualised chapters on Max Reinhardt, Peter Zadek, and the first production of the play in Mandatory Palestine, directed by Leopold Jessner. The main focus of the book is on post-1990s productions across Europe and the USA.

The Segue provides a broad survey of the interpretative shifts in performance from the 1930s to the second decade of the twenty-first century. Informative chapters on productions of the play by major contemporary directors present the work of Trevor Nunn, Robert Sturua, Edward Hall, Rupert Goold, Daniel Sullivan and Karin Coonrod's staging in the Venetian Ghetto. An extensive section engages with the cinematic history of the play, from silent-era adaptations, like Peter Paul Felner's Der Kaufmann von Venedig (The Jew of Mestri), through Pierre Billon's talkie Le Marchand de Venise; it includes a close analysis of Don Selwyn's Te Tangata Whai Rawa or Weniti (The Maori Merchant of Venice) and Michael Radford's William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

This broad picture of key theatrical and film transformations of The Merchant of Venice will prove essential to students of the history of performance, scholars interested in the general trends and local specificities of the play's staging and reception, as well as to theatre practitioners and all those who are prepared to look into the dark history of anti-Semitism and oppression, reflected in the stage fortunes of Shakespeare's play.

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Januar 2026, ca. 376 Seiten, Shakespeare in Performance, Englisch
Ingram Publishers Services
978-1-5261-9540-1

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