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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare
For this updated edition of one of Shakespeares most problematic plays Tom Lockwood has added a new introductory section on the latest scholarly trends performance and adaptation practices which have occurred over the last two decades. Investigating the latest critical frames through which the play has been interpreted the updated introduction also focuses on recent international performances on stage and screen (including Al Pacinos performances on film and in Daniel Sullivans production in New York the Habima National Theatres production for the Globe to Globe Festival Jonathan Munbys touring production for the Globe performed in London New York and Venice and Rupert Goolds production for the Royal Shakespeare Company). Finally new forms of adaptation are considered: a performance transposed to the different generic mode of a New York auction room and the remaking of the play in Howard Jacobsons 2016 novel Shylock Is my Name.