'Hard hearts' resounding now: anatomising race, resistance, and community in The Merchant in Venice (2016) and Julius Caesar (2017)

被引：2

作者：

Henderson, Diana E. ^{[1
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机构：

[1] MIT, Literature, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[2] MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

来源：

CAHIERS ELISABETHAINS | 2019年 / 99卷 / 01期

关键词：

re-citation; race; non-traditional casting; political theatre; poetic echoes; daggers;

D O I：

10.1177/0184767819851076

中图分类号：

I3/7 [各国文学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Placing two innovative, high-profile stagings of Shakespeare in dialogue, this essay emphasises the power of re-citations, both as aural echoes and as tableaux, across dramatic genres. Building on Martin Luther King's self-quotation within his anti-Vietnam address, it reveals how the Compagnia de' Colombari's site-specific The Merchant of Venice, performed in the originary Jewish Ghetto, and the New York Public Theater's Julius Caesar, which created a national furore, each employed non-traditional casting and Shakespeare's Act 4 emphasis on threatened yet suspended male-on-male violence to create complex political theatre, addressing historical ethnic and racial inequalities within 'the fierce urgency of now'.

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页码：173 / 192

页数：20