Precarious Figurations : : Shylock on the German Stage, 1920–2010 / / Zeno Ackermann, Sabine Schülting.
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 simul...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 246 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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