Description: Shakespeare's Shylock plays a precarious role on the 20th-century German stage. The work examines the contradictory meanings attributed to this Jewish character before, during and after the Holocaust, in the GDR, the Fed. Republic, and in the reun
Brief description: Zeno Ackermann, Julius-Maximilian-Universität, Würzburg, Germany; Sabine Schülting, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.