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Post-Shoah Shylocks: adapting 'The Merchant of Venice' for twentieth and twenty-first century audiences
… popular and frequently performed works from the Shakespeare canon. Although much has already been written on the play’s anti-Semitism, Shylock, and various individual productions, an in-depth global study of the Holocaust’s impact on performance remains untouched. This research, then, traces how …
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Wrestling with Father Shakespeare: Contemporary Revisions of <em>King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em>.
<p>In Shakespeare’s The Tempest and King Lear, the relationship between the father and his children affects the progression and outcome of events. Goneril and Regan oppose Lear after Cordelia’s untimely rebellion and disownment. In The Tempest, Caliban desires to overthrow Prospero for freedom. …