Merchant of Venice

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. Richly contextualised analyses of individual productions by major directors help produce a nuanced picture of the performance history of the play, guiding the reader from the 1930s through the early twenty-first century.

About the author

Boika Sokolova is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame (USA) in England

Summary

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice. Richly contextualised analyses of individual productions by major directors help produce a nuanced picture of the performance history of the play, guiding the reader from the 1930s through the early twenty-first century. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Boika Sokolova, Boika Stavreva Sokolova, Sokolova Boika, Kirilka Stavreva, Stavreva Kirilka
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781526150097
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5009-7
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Shakespeare in Performance
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Films, cinema, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean