Precarious Figurations focuses on the reception of Shakespeare\'s The Merchant of Venice in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Germany.
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Looking at theatrical practices and critical or scholarly discourses from the Weimar Republic to the new millennium, the book explores why the play has served simultaneously as a vehicle for the actualization of anti-Semitic tropes and as a staging ground for the critical exposure of the very logic of anti-Semitism.
Precarious Figurations focuses on the reception of Shakespeare\'s The Merchant of Venice in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Germany