The Strange Case of Shylock: From a Figure of Tragic Dimensions into an Ordinary Jewish Bargainer

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angličtina
Original language name
The Strange Case of Shylock: From a Figure of Tragic Dimensions into an Ordinary Jewish Bargainer
Original language description
This article attempts to trace the reception of productions of "The Merchant of Venice" directed by Jaroslav Kvapil (7 April 1916) and Antonín Fencl (8 April 1916), in newspaper theatre reviews in terms of critical response embedded in the broader social and political context of the Shakespeare Festival held in Prague in 1916 during the Great War. Kvapil’s and Fencl’s respective performances of The Merchant of Venice were divided by only a single day. However, the two renditions were very different. Fencl became the exclusive and multifunctional creator of the performance, in which he rose to the task of director, stage designer, translator and performer of the role of Shylock. In contrast to Kvapil’s directing concept and Eduard Vojan’s vindictive but distressed, human portrayal of Shylock, which dominated the National Theatre’s stage, Fencl portrayed the Venetian Jew in a thoroughly comedic manner. Fencl’s “Jewish bargainer, hunching and skulking whimsically, bargaining secretively and in a neighbourly manner, negotiating cunningly and insidiously,” did not seem to win the favour of the theatre critics of the time.
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Publication year
2019
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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