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…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Schülting, Sabine
- ISBN: 978-3-11-061792-4
- EAN: 9783110617924
- Produktnummer: 36971022
- Verlag: Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Abbildungen: 10 b/w ill.
Über den Autor
Zeno Ackermann, Julius-Maximilian-Universität, Würzburg, Germany; Sabine Schülting, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
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