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Precarious figurations : Shylock on the German stage, 1920-2010 / Zeno Ackermann, Sabine Schülting

Englisch

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

© 2019

1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 246 Seiten) : Illustrationen

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Erscheint auch als (EPUB) : ISBN 9783110615593

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Ackermann, Zeno *1968-*: Precarious figurations. - Berlin : De Gruyter, 2019. - VIII, 246 Seiten

978-3-11-061792-4 PDF

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-3-11-061553-1 (Druckausgabe) print, 978-3-11-061559-3 (Fernzugriff) ePUB

DOI: 10.1515/9783110617924

*Shakespeare, William *1564-1616*. The merchant of Venice / Shylock / Rezeption / Deutschland / Inszenierung / Geschichte 1920-2010

*LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: PR2825

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 822.3/3;

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: HI 3391: H Anglistik. Amerikanistik / HG-HO Englische Literatur / HI Renaissance, Elisabethanische Zeit (1500-1640) / HI 1130-HI 4000 Literaturgeschichte / HI 1350-HI 3975 Einzelne Autoren und Denkmäler / HI 3240-HI 3795 Autoren und Denkmäler S / HI 3269-HI 3583 Shakespeare, William / HI 3300-HI 3583 Sekundärliteratur / HI 3375-HI 3583 Das Werk / HI 3390-HI 3543 Gattungen und einzelne Werke / HI 3390-HI 3511 Dramen / Komödien

bisacsh: LIT004120

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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 by the Holocaust. The careful analysis of the German reception of Merchant, and in particular of the ways of doing and reading Shylock in the context of painful German, and German-Jewish, discourses of identity and remembrance, is designed to raise fundamental questions – questions concerning not only the staging of Jewishness, the tenacity of anti-Semitism and the difficulties of Holocaust remembrance, but also the general potentials and limitations of theatrical interventions into cultural conflicts

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Figuring Identity: Ruptures and Continuities from the Reinhardt Era to the Early Federal Republic (1905–1957) -- 2. Staging Remembrance: Refigurations on the West German Stage (1960–1990) -- 3. Inheriting a Classic: Configurations of Merchant in the German Democratic Republic (1949–1990) -- 4. After Remembrance? – Shylock in the Reunified Germany (1990–2010) -- 5. “Forced Companionability”: Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Stage Productions of The Merchant of Venice in Germany and Austria (1933–2010) -- Index

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