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Shylock in Germany - Antisemitism and the German Theatre from The Enlightenment to the Nazis (Hardcover)
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Shylock in Germany - Antisemitism and the German Theatre from The Enlightenment to the Nazis (Hardcover)
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How did the catastrophic development of antisemitism in Germany
interact with the portrayal of Shylock on the German stage? Here
Andrew Bonnell gives us the first cultural history of this tragic
character from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" as performed
on the German stage from the late eighteenth century to the end of
World War II. In addition to analysing the performances of the most
famous German actors in the role from 1777 to 1944, "Shylock in
Germany" looks at the rising and falling popularity of "The
Merchant of Venice" across Germany in this period, and the extent
to which the role's history reflects changes in the situation of
Jews in Germany and Austria.It follows the evolution of Shylock in
nineteenth century and Imperial Germany, from the formative years
of the modern German theatre as a cultural (and civic) institution;
through the Weimar Republic, an epoch remembered for innovation and
experiment, but also a period marked by an estrangement between an
aggressively modernist metropolitan culture and a provincial
cultural life which clung more to continuity; and, finally,
considers the impact of the Nazi period with its murderous
state-ordained antisemitism. Shylock's career in Germany after 1933
was neither as conspicuous nor as unambiguous as one might expect.
Using archival research and drawing on much primary source
material, Bonnell does not confine the book to theatre history only
- but instead uses the changing portrayal of Shylock to analyse
German cultural attitudes towards Jews over time.
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