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The Jewish King Lear

2007-01-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2007-01-01
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Book Synopsis The Jewish King Lear by : Jacob Gordin

Download or read book The Jewish King Lear written by Jacob Gordin. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish King Lear, written by the Russian-Jewish writer Jacob Gordin, was first performed on the New York stage in 1892, during the height of a massive emigration of Jews from eastern Europe to America. This book presents the original play to the English-speaking reader for the first time in its history, along with substantive essays on the play’s literary and social context, Gordin’s life and influence on Yiddish theater, and the anomalous position of Yiddish culture vis-�-vis the treasures of the Western literary tradition. Gordin’s play was not a literal translation of Shakespeare’s play, but a modern evocation in which a Jewish merchant, rather than a king, plans to divide his fortune among his three daughters. Created to resonate with an audience of Jews making their way in America, Gordin’s King Lear reflects his confidence in rational secularism and ends on a note of joyful celebration.

The Jewish King Lear

190? Theater programs
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Release : 190?
Genre : Theater programs
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Book Synopsis The Jewish King Lear by : People's Theatre (New York, N.Y.)

Download or read book The Jewish King Lear written by People's Theatre (New York, N.Y.). This book was released on 190?. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Of Parents and Children

1966
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Release : 1966
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Book Synopsis Of Parents and Children by : Leonard Prager

Download or read book Of Parents and Children written by Leonard Prager. This book was released on 1966. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage

2005-04 History
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Release : 2005-04
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage by : Joel Berkowitz

Download or read book Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage written by Joel Berkowitz. This book was released on 2005-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The professional Yiddish theatre started in 1876 in Eastern Europe; with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, masses of Eastern European Jews began moving westward, and New York—Manhattan’s Bowery and Second Avenue—soon became the world’s center of Yiddish theatre. At first the Yiddish repertoire revolved around comedies, operettas, and melodramas, but by the early 1890s America's Yiddish actors were wild about Shakespeare. In Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, Joel Berkowitz knowledgeably and intelligently constructs the history of this unique theatrical culture. The Jewish King Lear of 1892 was a sensation. The year 1893 saw the beginning of a bevy of Yiddish versions of Hamlet; that year also saw the first Yiddish production of Othello. Romeo and Juliet inspired a wide variety of treatments. The Merchant of Venice was the first Shakespeare play published in Yiddish, and Jacob Adler received rave reviews as Shylock on Broadway in both 1903 and 1905. Berkowitz focuses on these five plays in his five chapters. His introduction provides an orientation to the Yiddish theatre district in New York as well as the larger picture of Shakespearean production and the American theatre scene, and his conclusion summarizes the significance of Shakespeare’s plays in Yiddish culture.

The Yiddish Queen Lear and Woman in the Moon

2001-10-02 Drama
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Release : 2001-10-02
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis The Yiddish Queen Lear and Woman in the Moon by : Julia Pascal

Download or read book The Yiddish Queen Lear and Woman in the Moon written by Julia Pascal. This book was released on 2001-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yiddish Queen Lear New York in the late 1930s: a once-famous Yiddish actress gives her theatre business over to her three daughters. The Yiddish Queen Lear is a story of love, infedelity, betrayal and exile, which examines the moment when Jewish East European and American cultures mix, on the eve of the Holocaust. Both a free reworking of Shakespeare’s King Lear and a homage to the lost world of Yiddish theatre, The Yiddish Queen Lear is a vibrant, funny and tragic study of the clashes and connections between two very different worlds. "This play is an affecting and electic treat." Evening Standard (The Yiddish Queen Lear) Woman In The Moon Set in the United States, England and Germany, between 1920 and 2001, Woman In The Moon is a dream play inspired by both the legend of Faust and the testimonies of French, Austrian and German survivors from Camp Dora. It explores the connections between the US space programme, the V1 and V2 bombers, and the slave labour in the Third Reich. "Brave, intelligent and desperately moving." The Guardian (Woman In The Moon)

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