Precarious Figurations: Shylock on the German Stage, 1920-2010

by Zeno Ackermann

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110736497
• ISBN13: 9783110736496
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"