Format:
xiii, 295 Seiten
,
20 cm
ISBN:
9781350125957
Series Statement:
Global Shakespeare inverted
Content:
"The Merchant of Venice and Othello are the two Shakespeare plays which serve as touchstones for contemporary understandings and responses to notions of 'the stranger' and 'the other'. This groundbreaking collection explores the dissemination of the two plays through Europe in the first two decades of the 21st-century, tracing how productions and interpretations have reflected the changing conditions and attitudes locally and nationally. Packed with case studies of productions of each play in different countries, the volume opens vistas on the continent's turbulent history marked by the instability of allegiances and boundaries, and shifting senses of identity in a context of war, decolonization and migration. Chapters examine productions in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Italy, France, Portugal and Germany to shed light on wide-scale European developments for the first time in English. In a final section, performance insights are offered by interviews with three directors: Karin Coonrod on directing The Merchant in Venice at the Venetian Ghetto in 2016, Plamen Markov on his 2020 Othello for the Varna Theatre (Bulgaria), and Arnaud Churin, whose Othello toured France in 2019. In drawing attention to the ways in which historical circumstances and collective memory shape and refashion performance, Shakespeare's Others in 21st-century European Performance offers a rich review of European theatrical engagements with Otherness in the productions of these two plays"
Note:
'Venice' is elsewhere : the Stranger's locality, or, Italian 'blackness' in twenty-first century stagings of Othello / Anna Maria Cimitile -- Refracting the racial other into the other-within in two Bulgarian adaptations of Othello / Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva -- Estranged strangers : Krzysztof Warlikowski's Shylock and Othello in African tales after Shakespeare (2011) / Aleksandra Sakowska -- Drags, dyes, and death in Venice : The merchant of Venice (2004) and Othello (2012) in Belgrade, Serbia / Zorica Bečanović Nikolić -- The merchant of Venice in France (2001 and 2017) : deconstructing a malaise / Janice Valls-Russell -- 'Barbarous temper', 'hideous violence' and 'mountainish inhumanity' : stage encounters with The merchant of Venice in Romania / Nicoleta Cinpoes -- Staging The merchant of Venice in Hungary : politics, prejudice and languages of hatred / Natália Pikli -- Dutch negotiations with otherness in times of crisis : Othello (2006) and The Arab of Amsterdam (2008) / Coen Heijes -- 'Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago' : radical empathy in two Portuguese performances of Othello / Francesca Rayner -- A tragedy? Othello and The merchant of Venice in Germany during the 2015-2016 'refugee crisis' / Bettina Boecker -- The merchant in Venice in the Venetian Ghetto (2016) : director Karin Coonrod in conversation with Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva -- Inverting Othello in France (2019) : director Arnaud Churin in conversation with Janice Valls-Russell -- Migrant Othello in Bulgaria (2020) : professor Plamen Markov in conversation with Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva -- Coda: Staging Shakespeare's others and their Biblical archetype / Péter Dávidházi
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-350-12597-1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-350-12598-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 The merchant of Venice
;
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Othello
;
Aufführung
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Europa
;
Geschichte 2000-2020
;
Konferenzschrift
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