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Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe
The
Merchant of Venice / Der Kaufmann von
Venedig.
Deutsche Prosafassung, Anmerkungen, Einleitung und Kommentar
von Ingeborg Heine-Harabasz. Stauffenburg
Verlag
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on-line editions
Quarto
(1600), Folio (1623)
[http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/MV/index.html]
Folio
(1623),
University of Virginia
[http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/]
Folio
(1623),
Furness. [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/|
Boika Sokolova, The Merchant of Venice
offers a pedagogical analysis of Shakespeare’s complex and controversial play in its Elizabethan and modern contexts.
[http://www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk/Catalogue/William_Shakespeare%253A_%27The_Merchant_of_Venice%27.html]
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translations
Modernised
Shakespeare:
Shakespeare in modern English, by Walter Saunders
[http://www.shakespeare2000.com/index.html] (May
2002
Der
Kaufmann von Venedig.
Deutsche Übersetzung v. August Wilhelm von Schlegel
[http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/kaufmann/kaufmann.htm]
(May 2002)
Il
mercadante di Venezia.
Shakespeare in Italian, transl. Goffredo Raponi:
[http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/s/shakespeare/index.htm]
Il
mercante di Venezia / The merchant of
Venice.
Italian Translation. (PDF-file)
[http://infoservice.dnsq.org/sh-commedie.html]
De Koopman van
Venetië Dutch
translation. by Jan
Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/] (March 2002)
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sources
Gesta
Romanorum,
(in Latin)
[http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/readers/gr/gr1.html]
Contarini,
Gasparo,
1483-1542. The commonwealth and gouernment of Venice.
London: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Edmund Mattes, and are
to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Hand and Plow in
Fleetstreet, 1599. Furness Library Facsimile
[http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]
Christopher Marlowe
: The
Complete Works
[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/MarloweTEXT.html#drama]
(last visit: 09/03/99)
Mosse,
Miles,
1580-1614. The arraignment and conuiction of vsurie: that
is, the iniquitie and vnlawfulnes of vsurie, displayed in
sixe sermons, preached at Saint Edmunds Burie in Suffolke,
vpon Prouerb. 28.8 . London, 1595. Furness Library Facsimile
[http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]
(Sept. 2001)
Smith, Henry, (1550?-1591). The
examination of usury.
A sermon preached in the city of London. Furness Library
Facsimile
[http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]
(Sept. 2001)
Le
Sylvain
(1535-ca. 1585). [Selections: Front matter; Of a Jew,
who would for his debt haue a pound of the flesh of a
Christian].The orator: handling a hundred seuerall
discourses. London, 1596. Furness Library Facsimile
[http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]
(Sept. 2001)
Arnold, John. The
Jews in Medieval Society
[http://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/acad_depts/his/faculty/arnold/jews.htm]
Smith, Goldwin. The
Vexing 'Jewish Question'
(A Nineteenth-Century Scholar's View)
[http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n1p16_Smith.html]
Stirling, Grant, The
History of the Jews in England
[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/jewishistory.htm]
not available:
Il Pecorone, Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, 1558
The Three Ladies of London, R. W., 1584
Zelauto or The Fountaine of Fame, Anthony Munday,
1580
Il Novellino, Masuccio, trans. W. G. Waters, 1895
Gesta Romanorum, transl. Sir F. Madden, 1838
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productions, performances
a) stage
history
Current
and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the
UK
[http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html]
(April 2002)
The
Traffic on Stage
(Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK)
[http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (April
2002)
Shakespeare
at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre
(1906-1960)
[http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html]
(April 2002)
Beatty-Kingston,
W. "Shylock
in Germany"
in: The Theatre : A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music,
and the Fine Arts; Vol I. New Series : January to June
1880 (London : Charles Dickens & Evans, 1880), pp. 17-20
& 86-90. ed. T. Larque.
[http://shakespearean.org.uk/shy1-bea.htm]
Dakin, Mary Ellen. "Three
Scenes, Three Societies, Three
Shylocks."
Shakespeare Magazine, (Spring 1997)
[http://www.shakespearemag.com/spring97/dakin.asp]
Stage
depictions of Shylock [ttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/stagehistory.htm]
(May 2002)
b) actors, pictures of performances
The
Cleveland Press Shakespeare
Photographs by
Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures
of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare
on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet.
[http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/]
c) reviews of productions
Olivier, Richard. London
Globe 1998
reviews
[http://www.albemarle-london.com/globe.html#merchantofvenice]
Doran, Gregory. Stratford,
RSC 1997/8 (Shylock:
Philipp Voss) reviews.
[http://www.albemarle-london.com/rsc-merchant.html]
Performance
Review, Peter
Sellars, Goodman Theatre, Chicago. 5 November 1994. / Bary
Edelstein, New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp Public
Theatre. 18 February 1995.
[http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/theatre_journal/48.1pr_shakespeare02.html]
Peter Hall, Broadway
1989/90
[http://www.theatredb.com/cgi-bin/q.pl?stext=Merchant+of+Venice&query=show]
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film versions
Internet
Movie Database
[http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare
on Television: a bibliography of
criticism
[http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]
Maori
Merchant of Venice,
The (New Zealand, 2002) (play) dir. Don Selwyn. aka Tangata
Whai Rawa o Weniti, Te (2002) (New Zealand: Maori title)
Writing credits Pei Te Hurinui Jones
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0300179] (Dec. 2001)
preview
[http://www.maorimerchantofvenice.com/] (Febr.
2002)
The
Merchant of Venice,
dir. Trevor Nunn. (UK, 2001) (TV, BNC Production) Henry
Goodman as Shylock.
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0298061] (Dec. 2001)
Shylock.
dir. Pierre Lasry. (documentary, Canada 1999) (1999) Orson
Welles, Werner Krauss, Warren Mitchell, Harry Baur, Ron
Leibman, David Berner, Christopher Gaze, Laurence Olivier,
Bernard Mendelovitch, Dustin Hoffman
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0226448] (Dec. 2001)
The
Merchant of Venice,
(1996) (TV) dir. Benny Pest.
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0138606]
Der
Kaufmann von Venedig,
(Germany 1990) (TV) dir. Peter Zadek
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0194076]
The
Merchant of Venice,
(1980) (BBC, TV) dir. Jack Gold
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0081152]
The
Merchant of Venice,
(Canada, 1976) (TV) dir. John Sichel
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0170239[
The
Merchant of Venice,
(UK, 1973) (TV) dir. Jonathan Miller
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0070386]
The
Merchant of Venice,
(UK, 1972) (TV) dir. Cedric Messina
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068937]
Der
Kaufmann von Venedig,
(Austria, 1968) (TV) dir. Otto Schenk
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0248938]
The
Merchant of Venice,
(UK, 1955) (TV) dir. Hal Burton
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0048371]
Le
Marchand de Venise,
(France/Italy 1952) dir. Pierre Billon
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0044885]
The
Merchant of Venice,
(UK, 1947) (TV) dir. George More O'Ferrall
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0039618]
Der
Kaufmann von Venedig,
(Germany, silent 1923) dir. Peter Paul Felner
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0014175]
Tense
Moments from Great Plays
(UK, silent 1922) Shylock: Ivan Berlyn
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0175235]
The
Merchant of Venice,
(UK, silent 1916) dir. Walter West
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0007057]
The
Merchant of Venice,
(USA, silent 1914) dir. Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0004325]
The
Merchant of Venice,
(USA, silent 1912) dir. Barry O'Neil
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0002358]
Il
Mercante di Venezia,
(Italy, silent 1910) dir. Gerolamo Lo Savio
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?000131]
The
Merchant of Venice,
(1908) (USA, silent 1908) dir. J. Stuart Blackton
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000724]
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adaptations in literature
Titles
from The Merchant of Venice
[http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/merchant.html]
Farquhar, Robert. Portia Pulls A Pinch Play.
(play) 1930.
Granville, George. The Jew of Venice. (play) 1701.
Epilogue
[http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/kkemmerer/poets/granville/venice.htm]
Life:
[http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/kkemmerer/poets/granville/default.html]
Kean, Charles. Shakespeare's Play of The Merchant of
Venice. (play) 1858.
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare:
The
Merchant of Venice
[http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/lambtales/LTMV.HTM]
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales,
ill. by Arthur Rackham
[http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/cml/tfs.html]
(May 2002)
Lamb, Tales,
ill. by Gertrude Hammond
(1878) [http://www.bartleby.com/1012/]
Leiren-Young, Mark.
Shylock.
(play) 1996.
[http://www.home.istar.ca/~mly/shylock.htm]
Marowitz, Charles. Variation on the Merchant of Venice.
(play) 1977.
Nesbit, Edith. Beautiful
Tales from Shakespeare
Scott, Munroe. Shylock's Treasure. (play) 1978.
Talfourd, Francis. Shylock. (play) 1853.
adaptations in popular novels and romances: Dean, Dinah.
River of Time; Jong, Erica. Serenissima (Shylock's
Daughter); Kellerman, Kaye. The Quality of Mercy;
Rasley, Alicia. Poetic Justice; Veran, Patricia. A
Shadow's Bliss, commented by Osborne, Laurie,
Romancing
the Bard:
[http://www.colby.edu/personal/l/leosborn/POPSHAK/]
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adaptations in music
Operas,
for details see:
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/] (in
Italian)
1873 Pinsuti; 1898 Deffés: Jessica
Castenuovo-Tedesco Mario (1895-1968) Il
Mercante di Venezia,
opera, 1958
Nürnberg, K. Il mercante die Venezia. 1973
Sullivan, Arhur. The
Merchant of Venice,
incidental music (1871)
[http://www.concentric.net/~oakapple/gasdisc/sullinci.htm#merchant_of_venice]
Taubmann, Otto. Porzia R. Wilde 1916
Vaughan Williams, Ralph. Serenade to Music
(Merchant of Venice)
Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Fancy
(III.2) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), 1964.; Francis
Poulenc (1899-1963), FP. 174.
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/fancy.html]
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paintings,
engravings, pictures
Shakespeare
illustrated
[http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/MerchantPaintings.html]
Ellen Terry as Portia. Frederic Leighton: Two Venetian
Gentlemen; Sir John Gilbert: Shylock after the
Trial. Henry Woods: Portia; Sir Samuel Luke
Fides, Portia. [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/merchant.html]
Gilbert, Sir John.
"Shylock after the trial", (picture from Knight's
Imperial Edition)
at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html]
(Febr. 2002)
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criticism
Arnold, John. The
Jews in Medieval Society
[http://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/acad_depts/his/faculty/arnold/jews.htm]
Beatty-Kingston, W. "Shylock
in Germany"
in: The Theatre : A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music,
and the Fine Arts; Vol I. New Series : January to June
1880 (London : Charles Dickens & Evans, 1880), pp. 17-20
& 86-90. ed. T. Larque.
[http://shakespearean.org.uk/shy1-bea.htm]
Dakin, Mary Ellen. "Three
Scenes, Three Societies, Three
Shylocks."
Shakespeare Magazine, (Spring 1997)
[http://www.shakespearemag.com/spring97/dakin.asp]
Gross, John. Review
of Shylock: A Legend & Its Legacy
[http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/shylock.review.html]
Hopkins, Lisa. "'Malta
of Gold': Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, and the Siege of
1565."
ReSoundings 1.2 (1997)
[http://www.millersv.edu/~resound/*vol1iss2/topframe.html]
Luxon, Thomas H. "A
Second Daniel: The Jew and the "True Jew" in The Merchant
of Venice."
EMLS (January 1999)
[http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/luxoshak.html]
Moulton:
From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and
American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols.
(London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 484-87.
[http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-merchant.html]
Pilkington, Ace G. Portia
and Shylock: The Outsiders of Venice
[http://dsc.dixie.edu/shakespeare/portiaess.htm]
(May 2002)
Schneider, Ben Ross. "Granville's
Jew of Venice (1701): A Close Reading of Shakespeare's
Merchant."
Shaksper webpage:
[http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/index.html]
Schneider, Ben Ross. "Shylock
Is Us"
[http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/index.html]
Sinfield, Alan.
Selective
Quotation
(a reply to Graham Bradshaw and Richard Levin concerning
their critiques of Sinfield in Shakespearean
International Yearbook vol. 1) in: Early Modern
Culture: An Electronic Seminar. (1-29-02)
[http://eserver.org/emc/1-2/sinfield.html] (March
02)
Siar, David : reply
to Alan Sinfield
[http://eserver.org/emc/1-2/siar.html] (March
02)
Smith, Goldwin. The
Vexing 'Jewish Question'
(A Nineteenth-Century Scholar's View)
[http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n1p16_Smith.html]
Stetner, Clifford: "The
Protestant Reformation according to Launcelot
Gobbo."
[http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/stetner5.html] (July 05)
Stetner, Clifford: Genre and Geometry in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice[http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/movgeometry.html]
(July 05)
Stetner, Clifford. The Merchant of Venice and the Second Tetralogy [http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/upch3.htm] (July 05)
Stirling, Grant. Textual
Analysis of the Merchant of Venice"
[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/textualanalyssi.htm]
Stirling, Grant, The
History of the Jews in England
[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/jewishistory.htm]
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in the classroom
see also on this
site: Education
- Shakespeare in the classroom
e-book: Boika Sokolova, The Merchant of Venice
offers a pedagogical analysis of Shakespeare’s complex and controversial play in its Elizabethan and modern contexts.
[http://www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk/Catalogue/William_Shakespeare%253A_%27The_Merchant_of_Venice%27.html]
Cummings, Michael.
The
Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to
Shakespeare. [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top] (Jan. 2002)
Merchant of Venice [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#topMerchant.html]
Marx, Steven.
Triangulating
Shakespeare:
teaching and lecture notes, course outlines, articles,
links, suggestions, film reviews. [http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/triang/Comedies/comedies.html]
Lynch
Multimedia:
Shakespeare for young readers; prose adaptations, audio
versions, classroom
versions.[http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/shakespeare.html]
Massi, JM. study
questions. [http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/mov.html] (25/04/01)
Shakespeare
for teachers
and students [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm] with
lesson plans (Jan. 2002)
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deutsche Webseiten
Gröchel, André. Das kleine Shakespeare-Brevier: Der
Kaufmann von Venedig Inhalt,
Wurzeln, Quellen. [Falls
dieser Link nicht klappt: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/kaufmann.htm]
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