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    Precarious figurations : Shylock on the German stage, 1920-2010 (2019)
    Berlin : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110617924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 246 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2019
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ackermann, Zeno, 1968 - Precarious figurations
    DDC: 822.3/3
    RVK:
    HI 3391
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 The merchant of Venice ; Shylock ; Rezeption ; Deutschland ; Inszenierung ; Geschichte 1920-2010
    Abstract: 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
    Abstract: 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
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
    DOI: 10.1515/9783110617924
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    Shylock nach dem Holocaust : Zur Geschichte einer deutschen Erinnerungsfigur (2011)
    Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110258219
    Language: German
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 227 S.)
    Edition: 2011
    Year of publication: 2011
    Series Statement: Conditio Judaica 78
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Shylock nach dem Holocaust
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Shylock nach dem Holocaust
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    RVK:
    HI 3391
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    HI 3333
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Congresses Influence ; Collective memory Congresses ; Jews in the performing arts Congresses ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Shylock (Fictitious character) ; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ; German History after 1945 ; Holocaust ; Shakespeare ; Shylock ; Konferenzschrift 2009 ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 The merchant of Venice ; Shylock ; Aufführung ; Deutschland ; Geschichte 1945-2009 ; Shylock ; Rezeption ; Deutschland ; Geschichte 1945-2009
    Abstract: After the breakdown of civilization during the Holocaust, Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice quickly regained its traditional position at the forefront of the West German theater scene. Despite or indeed due to the fact that the piece exhibits problematic constructions of Jewishness in the figure of the money-lender Shylock, it became an important reference point and medium of difficult debates regarding the problem of German hate and German guilt. This volume discusses important stations of this contradictory reception history from the perspective of English and German studies, theater studies
    DOI: 10.1515/9783110258219
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