Precarious Figurations
Shylock on the German Stage, 1920-2010
Precarious Figurations focuses on the reception of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Germany. Looking at theatrical practices and critical or scholarly discourses from the Weimar Republic to the new millennium, the book explores why the play has served simultaneously as a vehicle for the actualization of anti-Semitic tropes and as a staging ground for the critical exposure of the very logic of anti-Semitism. In particular, the study investigates how the figure of Shylock has come to be both a device in and a stumbling block for attempts to bridge the fundamental rupture in civilization brought about b…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Ackermann, Zeno
- ISBN: 978-3-11-073649-6
- EAN: 9783110736496
- Produktnummer: 35399834
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.7 cm 431 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 431
Über den Autor
Zeno Ackermann, Julius-Maximilian-Universität, Würzburg, Germany; Sabine Schülting, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
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