Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

After the breakdown of civilization during the Holocaust, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice quickly regained its traditional position at the forefront of the West German theater scene. Despite or indeed due to the fact that the piece exhibits problematic constructions of Jewishness in the figure of the money-lender Shylock, it became an important reference point and medium of difficult debates regarding the problem of German hate and German guilt. This volume discusses important stations of this contradictory reception history from the perspective of English and German studies, theater studies and commemorative history research.

Shylock (Fictitious character) --- Jews in the performing arts --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Collective memory --- Shylock --- Joden --- Beeld --- Artistes interprètes juifs --- Shoah --- Mémoire collective --- Influence --- Congrès. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616). --- Shakespeare, William --- Stage history --- Appreciation --- Mise en scène --- Histoire --- Appréciation --- Duitsland --- Shylock. --- Joden. --- Beeld. --- Shylock, --- Duitsland. --- Influence. --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Jews --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Nazi persecution --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Jacobson, Howard. --- Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario, --- Tchaikowsky, André, --- Harbison, John. --- Nystroem, Gösta, --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945) --- German History after 1945. --- Holocaust. --- Shakespeare. --- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) --- Shylock (personnage fictif) --- Allemagne --- Congrès