Staging The Merchant Of Venice In The 21st Century
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| Author | : Alyson Elizabeth Germinder |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Electronic dissertations |
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"Staging The Merchant of Venice in the 21st Century: A Dramaturgical Case Study" aims to document the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival's 2015 production of The Merchant of Venice by framing it within the historical narrative of the play's place in Kansas City theatrical history. This thesis also seeks to further define the relationship between the production process and dramaturgy by examining the development and implementation of dramaturgical responsibilities as they related to audience engagement with The Merchant of Venice. Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of The Merchant of Venice and examines the progression of the play from comedy to anti-Semitic tragedy beginning in the late nineteenth century. This chapter also identifies the decades-long hiatus of The Merchant of Venice from Kansas City. Chapter 2 will explore this gap in Kansas City's production history of The Merchant of Venice by looking at the two most recent productions of the play in 1950 and 1986 and introducing the initial conversation about bringing the play to Kansas City audiences in 2015. Chapter 3 then explains the nature of the production's rehearsal process by exploring the role of dramaturgy in the rehearsal hall. Chapter 4 continues the discussion of dramaturgy's involvement by looking at the role the dramaturg played in preparing audiences for the upcoming production. Chapter 5 analyzes the play's success with engaging an audience in a dialogue about The Merchant of Venice, and points to the play's importance in discussing the larger social issues of the Kansas City community.
| Author | : William Shakespeare |
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| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : 1917 |
| Genre | : Jews |
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| Author | : Boika Sokolova |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2021-08-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1350125962 |
The Merchant of Venice and Othello are the two Shakespeare plays which serve as touchstones for contemporary understandings and responses to notions of 'the stranger' and 'the other'. This groundbreaking collection explores the dissemination of the two plays through Europe in the first two decades of the 21st-century, tracing how productions and interpretations have reflected the changing conditions and attitudes locally and nationally. Packed with case studies of productions of each play in different countries, the volume opens vistas on the continent's turbulent history marked by the instability of allegiances and boundaries, and shifting senses of identity in a context of war, decolonization and migration. Chapters examine productions in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Italy, France, Portugal and Germany to shed light on wide-scale European developments for the first time in English. In a final section, performance insights are offered by interviews with three directors: Karin Coonrod on directing The Merchant in Venice at the Venetian Ghetto in 2016, Plamen Markov on his 2020 Othello for the Varna Theatre (Bulgaria) and Arnaud Churin, whose Othello toured France in 2019. In drawing attention to the ways in which historical circumstances and collective memory shape and refashion performance, Shakespeare's Others in 21st-century European Performance offers a rich review of European theatrical engagements with Otherness in the productions of these two plays.
| Author | : William Shakespeare |
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| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 1889 |
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| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Boika Sokolova |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2024-02-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1526150085 |
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. While the focus of the book is on post-1990s productions across Europe and the USA, and on film, the Segue provides a broad survey of the interpretative shifts in the play’s performance from the 1930s to the second decade of the twenty-first century. Individual chapters explore productions by Peter Zadek, Trevor Nunn, Robert Sturua, Edward Hall, Rupert Goold, Daniel Sullivan, and Karin Coonrod. An extensive film section including silent film offers close analysis of Don Selwyn’s Te Tangata Whai Rawa o Weniti and Michael Radford’s adaptation. Accessible and engaging, the book will interest students, academics, and general readers.
| Author | : Edna Nahshon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 457 |
| Release | : 2017-03-10 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1107010276 |
This book explores responses to The Merchant of Venice by Jewish writers, critics, theater artists, thinkers, religious leaders and institutions.
| Author | : Christopher Marlowe |
| Publisher | : Broadview Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2011-12-02 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1770483039 |
First performed by Shakespeare’s rivals in the 1590s, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta was a trend-setting, innovative play whose black comedy and final tragic irony illuminate the darker regions of the Elizabethan cultural imagination. Although Jews were banished from England in 1291, the Jew in the form of Barabas, the play’s protagonist, returns on the stage to embody and to challenge the dramatic and cultural anti-Semitic stereotypes out of which he is constructed. The result is a theatrically sophisticated but deeply unsettling play whose rich cultural significance extends beyond the early modern period to the present day. The introduction and historical documents in this edition provide a rich context for the world of the play’s composition and production, including materials on Jewishness and anti-Semitism, the political struggles over Malta, and Christopher Marlowe’s personal and political reputation.
| Author | : Stuart Sillars |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1107193249 |
Shows how illustrated editions and paintings of the plays were originally produced and read as critical, social and political statements.
| Author | : John Wilders |
| Publisher | : Aurora Publishing Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : Drama |
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This edition of The Merchant of Venice, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, includes an exceptionally lucid and accessible introduction which addresses Shakespeare's attitude toward Semitism and establishes the cultural, historical, and literary context in which Shakespearewrote the play. An interesting range of production photographs and drawings of Renaissance merchants and Jews, and a survey of the play's stage history ranging from discussions of its early staging to important twentieth-century productions and performances outside England, particularly Israel, makes this an ideal edition for students, actors, and the general reader.
| Author | : William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2014-12-16 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1443441554 |
Among the most enduring poetry of all time, William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets address such eternal themes as love, beauty, honesty, and the passage of time. Written primarily in four-line stanzas and iambic pentameter, Shakespeare’s sonnets are now recognized as marking the beginning of modern love poetry. The sonnets have been translated into all major written languages and are frequently used at romantic celebrations. Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeare’s works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
