Sokolova / Stavreva The Merchant of Venice

Second edition
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5010-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Reihe: Shakespeare in Performance

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice. Richly contextualised analyses of individual productions by major directors help produce a nuanced picture of the performance history of the play, guiding the reader from the 1930s through the early twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sokolova, Boika

Stavreva, Kirilka

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I
I An Elizabethan Merchant: performance and context
II Henry Irving and the great tradition
III Wayward genius in the high temple of bardolotry: Theodore Komisarjevsky
IV Aesthetes in a rugger club: Jonathan Miller and Laurence Olivier
V The BBC Merchant: diminishing returns
VI Cultural stereotyping and audience response: Bill Alexander and Antony Sher
VII Shylock and the pressures of history

PART II
Segue The Merchant of Venice: pressures of war, ideology, and the crises of late capitalism
I Magical spectacles and nightmarish times: Max Reinhardt’s productions of The Merchant of Venice
II Peter Zadek’s challenges to the post-war German legacy of The Merchant of Venice
III A post-Holocaust balancing act: The Merchant of Venice directed by Trevor Nunn at the National Theatre, London (1999)
IV Desperate outsiders in a money-drunk world: The Merchant of Venice directed by Daniel Sullivan (2010) and Rupert Goold (2011)
V Crises of the new millennium: The Merchant of Venice directed by Robert Sturua (2000) and Edward Hall (2009)
VI The Merchant of Venice on film
VII The search for justice: The Merchant of Venice in Mandatory Palestine (1936) and the Venetian Ghetto (2016)

Appendix A Some significant twentieth- and twenty-first century productions of The Merchant of Venice
Appendix B Major actors and creative staff for productions discussed
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Boika Sokolova is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame (USA) in England

Kirilka Stavreva is Professor of English at Cornell College, USA