Shakespeare’s Others in 21st-century European Performance

The Merchant of Venice and Othello

Boika Sokolova, Janice Valls-Russell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2021
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-12595-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Janice Valls-Russell is Principal research associate (French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), University Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France. Boika Sokolova teaches at the University of Notre Dame, USA, in England.

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Introduction Boika Sokolova (University of Notre Dame, London, UK) and Janice Valls-Russell (University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France)

PART ONE Relocating otherness: the Other-within
Induction 1 Lawrence Guntner (Germany)
1. ‘Venice’ is elsewhere: the Stranger’s locality, or, Italian ‘blackness’ in twenty-first-century stagings of Othello Anna Maria Cimitile (University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italy)
2. Refracting the racial Other into the Other-within in two Bulgarian adaptations of Othello Boika Sokolova (Unoversity of Notre Dame, London, UK) and Kirilka Stavreva (Cornell College, USA)
3. Estranged Strangers: Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Shylock and Othello in African Tales after Shakespeare (2011) Aleksandra Sakowska (Shakespeare Institute, UK)
4. Drags, dyes, and death in Venice: The Merchant of Venice (2004) and Othello (2012) in Belgrade, Serbia Zorica Becanovic Nikolic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
5. The Merchant of Venice in France (2001 and 2017): deconstructing a malaise Janice Valls-Russell (University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France)

PART TWO New nationalisms, migrants: imperfect resolutions
Induction 2 Lawrence Guntner (Germany)
6. ‘Barbarous temper’, ‘hideous violence’ and ‘mountainish inhumanity’: stage encounters with The Merchant of Venice in Romania Nicoleta Cinpoes (University of Worcester, UK)
7. Staging The Merchant of Venice in Hungary: politics, prejudice and languages of hatred Natália Pikli (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
8. Dutch negotiations with otherness in times of crisis: Othello (2006) and The Arab of Amsterdam (2008) Coen Heijes (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
9. ‘Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago’: radical empathy in two Portuguese performances of Othello Francesca Rayner (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
10. A tragedy? Othello and The Merchant of Venice in Germany during the 2015–2016 ‘refugee crisis’ Bettina Boecker (University of Munich, Germany)

PART THREE Performative propositions
Induction 3 Lawrence Guntner (Germany)
11. The Merchant in Venice in the Venetian Ghetto (2016): Director Karin Coonrod in conversation with Boika Sokolova (University of Notre Dame, London, UK) and Kirilka Stavreva (Cornell College, USA)
12. Inverting Othello in France (2019): Director Arnaud Churin in conversation with Janice Valls-Russell (University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France)
13. Migrant Othello in Bulgaria (2020): Professor Plamen Markov in conversation with Boika Sokolova (University of Notre Dame, London, UK) and Kirilka Stavreva (Cornell College, USA)

Coda: Staging Shakespeare’s Others and their Biblical archetype Péter Dávidházi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)

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Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Global Shakespeare Inverted
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Dr David Schalkwyk, Silvia Bigliazzi
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-12595-4 / 1350125954
ISBN-13	978-1-350-12595-7 / 9781350125957
Zustand	Neuware