{"product_id":"the-merchant-of-venice-9781526150097","title":"The Merchant of Venice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva’s second edition of the stage history of \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e interweaves into the chronology of James Bulman’s first edition richly contextualised chapters on Max Reinhardt, Peter Zadek, and the first production of the play in Mandatory Palestine, directed by Leopold Jessner. While the focus of the book is on post-1990s productions across Europe and the USA, and on film, the Segue provides a broad survey of the interpretative shifts in the play’s performance from the 1930s to the second decade of the twenty-first century. Individual chapters explore productions by Peter Zadek, Trevor Nunn, Robert Sturua, Edward Hall, Rupert Goold, Daniel Sullivan, and Karin Coonrod. An extensive film section including silent film offers close analysis of Don Selwyn’s \u003ci\u003eTe Tangata Whai Rawa o Weniti\u003c\/i\u003e and Michael Radford’s adaptation\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Accessible and engaging, the book will interest students, academics, and general readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I\u003cbr\u003eI An Elizabethan \u003ci\u003eMerchant\u003c\/i\u003e: performance and context\u003cbr\u003eII Henry Irving and the great tradition\u003cbr\u003eIII Wayward genius in the high temple of bardolotry: Theodore Komisarjevsky\u003cbr\u003eIV Aesthetes in a rugger club: Jonathan Miller and Laurence Olivier\u003cbr\u003eV The BBC \u003ci\u003eMerchant\u003c\/i\u003e: diminishing returns\u003cbr\u003eVI Cultural stereotyping and audience response: Bill Alexander and Antony Sher\u003cbr\u003eVII Shylock and the pressures of history\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II\u003cbr\u003eSegue \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e: pressures of war, ideology, and the crises of late capitalism\u003cbr\u003eI Magical spectacles and nightmarish times: Max Reinhardt’s productions of \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII Peter Zadek’s challenges to the post-war German legacy of \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII A post-Holocaust balancing act: \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e directed by Trevor Nunn at the National Theatre, London (1999)\u003cbr\u003eIV Desperate outsiders in a money-drunk world: \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e directed by Daniel Sullivan (2010) and Rupert Goold (2011)\u003cbr\u003eV Crises of the new millennium: \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e directed by Robert Sturua (2000) and Edward Hall (2009)\u003cbr\u003eVI \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice \u003c\/i\u003eon film\u003cbr\u003eVII The search for justice: \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice \u003c\/i\u003ein Mandatory Palestine (1936) and the Venetian Ghetto (2016)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A Some significant twentieth- and twenty-first century productions of \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B Major actors and creative staff for productions discussed\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041014907223,"sku":"9781526150097","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526150097.jpg?v=1750948603","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-merchant-of-venice-9781526150097","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}