ISBN:
9781641892513
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (202 p.)
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Jewish Engagements
Keywords:
DRAMA / Medieval
;
Commedia dell' arte
;
Gonzaga and the Jews
;
Jews in early-modern Italy
;
Jews in theatre
;
Jews of Mantua
;
Theatre making in early-modern Italy
Abstract:
This book studies how the Jewish community of Mantua established, normalized, and maintained interrelations with the Christian community for over 130 years, from 1520 to 1650, by means of theatre performance for the Gonzaga Dukes. Performance is shown to have been a mutually beneficial "currency" that both the Dukes and Jews could use to calibrate their relations with one another. Seen in this light, the author demonstrates that performance was not the consequence of cultural exchange between Jews and Christians, but was one of the means by which the complicated nature of cultural communication and exchange took place. Jewish Theatre Making in Mantua details the performances created by the Jewish community of Mantua and argues that these theatrical events were a crucial component in the ability of Jews to live peacefully within Mantua, which became one of the few refuges left to Jews in the Italian peninsula and Catholic Europe
Note:
Frontmatter
,
CONTENTS
,
List of Figures
,
Figure 1. Map of Northern Italy with cities with significant Jewish contribution to theatre- making in Italy, 1520– 1650. Copyright Christian Harder, Esri
,
Acknowledgements
,
Chapter 1. Introduction: “Under the Happy Shadow and Secure Protection”
,
Chapter 2. Beginnings: Jews and the Early Modern Italian Stage 1475– 1540
,
Chapter 3. A Canny Theatrical Intermediary
,
Chapter 4. A Virtuoso of Jewish Mantua
,
Chapter 5. Jewish Theatrical Production in the Shadow of the Counter- Reformation
,
Chapter 6. The End of Jewish Performance in Mantua
,
Chapter 7. Conclusion
,
Appendix 1. Translation of Description of Jewish Performance in Pesaro in 1475
,
Appendix 2. Jewish Performances in Mantua
,
Bibliography
,
Index
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781641892513
