Book contents
- Wrestling with Shylock
- Wrestling with Shylock
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part I Introductions
- Part II Discourses
- Part III The Stage
- 6 David Belasco’s 1922 Production of The Merchant of Venice
- 7 New York City, 1947: A Season for Shylocks
- 8 The Merchant of Venice in Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel
- 9 Fritz Kortner and other German-Jewish Shylocks before and after the Holocaust
- 10 Evoking the Holocaust in George Tabori’s Productions of The Merchant of Venice
- 11 The Merchant of Venice on the German Stage and the 1995 “Buchenwald” Production in Weimar
- 12 Recasting Shakespeare’s Jew in Wesker’s Shylock
- 13 Jewish Directors and Jewish Shylocks in Twentieth-Century England
- Part IV Literature, Art, and Music
- Part V Postscript
- Index
9 - Fritz Kortner and other German-Jewish Shylocks before and after the Holocaust
from Part III - The Stage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017
- Wrestling with Shylock
- Wrestling with Shylock
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part I Introductions
- Part II Discourses
- Part III The Stage
- 6 David Belasco’s 1922 Production of The Merchant of Venice
- 7 New York City, 1947: A Season for Shylocks
- 8 The Merchant of Venice in Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel
- 9 Fritz Kortner and other German-Jewish Shylocks before and after the Holocaust
- 10 Evoking the Holocaust in George Tabori’s Productions of The Merchant of Venice
- 11 The Merchant of Venice on the German Stage and the 1995 “Buchenwald” Production in Weimar
- 12 Recasting Shakespeare’s Jew in Wesker’s Shylock
- 13 Jewish Directors and Jewish Shylocks in Twentieth-Century England
- Part IV Literature, Art, and Music
- Part V Postscript
- Index
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- Wrestling with ShylockJewish Responses to <I>The Merchant of Venice</I>, pp. 198 - 223Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017