{"product_id":"shylock-in-germany-andrew-g-bonnell-9781350172456","title":"Shylock in Germany: Antisemitism and the German Theatre from The Enlightenment to the Nazis","description":"How did the catastrophic development of antisemitism in Germany interact with the portrayal of Shylock on the German stage? Andrew Bonnell provides the first cultural history of this tragic character from Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, as performed on the German stage from the late eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War. In addition to analysing the performances of the most famous German actors in the role from 1777 to 1944, \u003ci\u003eShylock in Germany\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the rising and falling popularity of \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e across Germany in this period, and the extent to which the role's history reflects changes in the situation of Jews in Germany and Austria. It follows the evolution of Shylock in nineteenth century and Imperial Germany, from the formative years of the modern German theatre as a cultural (and civic) institution; through the Weimar Republic, an epoch remembered for innovation and experiment, but also a period marked by an estrangement between an aggressively modernist metropolitan culture and a provincial cultural life which clung more to continuity; and, finally, considers the impact of the Nazi period with its murderous state-ordained antisemitism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShylock's career in Germany after 1933 was neither as conspicuous nor as unambiguous as one might expect. Using archival research and drawing on much primary source material, Bonnell does not confine the book to theatre history only, but instead uses the changing portrayal of Shylock to analyse German cultural attitudes towards Jews over time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew G. Bonnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350172456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350172456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d","brand":"Andrew G. Bonnell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44064355647743,"sku":"9781350172456","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e029b963-ef39-43e3-a004-e9dea1a93989.jpg?v=1685394994","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shylock-in-germany-andrew-g-bonnell-9781350172456","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}