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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aAckermann, Zeno
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPrecarious Figurations :
_bShylock on the German Stage, 1920–2010 /
_cZeno Ackermann, Sabine Schülting.
264 1 _aBerlin ;
_aBoston :
_bDe Gruyter,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (X, 246 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tPreface --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Figuring Identity: Ruptures and Continuities from the Reinhardt Era to the Early Federal Republic (1905–1957) --
_t2. Staging Remembrance: Refigurations on the West German Stage (1960–1990) --
_t3. Inheriting a Classic: Configurations of Merchant in the German Democratic Republic (1949–1990) --
_t4. After Remembrance? – Shylock in the Reunified Germany (1990–2010) --
_t5. “Forced Companionability”: Conclusion --
_tWorks Cited --
_tStage Productions of The Merchant of Venice in Germany and Austria (1933–2010) --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aPrecarious 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.
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653 _aGermany.
653 _aShakespeare.
653 _aShylock.
653 _aanti-Semitism.
700 1 _aSchülting, Sabine
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110617924
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