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Video lecture by Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford University) who interprets the anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice via the framework provided by Frantz Fanon in his essay, ‘The Fact of Blackness’.
Brief video (a taster for Yad Vashem’s online course, ‘Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present’) in which Professor David Nirenberg looks at the historical and cultural roots of Shakespeare’s...
Recording of an online webinar, the sixth in a series examining Shakespeare and race. The event, focusing on Hamlet, is hosted Professor Farah Karim-Cooper and features Professor Ian Smith and actor Naeem...
US moral and religious talk series presented by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. One of his regular themes was the evils of communism. In this episode Archbishop Sheen intones the burial scene from Julius Caesar....
Recording of an online webinar, the seventh in a series examining Shakespeare and race. The event, focusing on The Marchant of Venice, is hosted by Hahn Bui and features Professor Shaul Bassi and actor...
Documentary about Gareth Armstrong’s SHYLOCK, a one-person show written and performed by Armstrong and directed by Frank Barrie. Includes a backstage interview with Armstong in which he discusses the...
Joel Hurstfield, Astor Professor of English History at University College, London questions whether Marlowe and Shakespeare ever met a Jew? Professor Hurstfield asks this question in the light of The Jew of...
Documentary. Alan Yentob travels to the ghetto in Venice with novelist Howard Jacobson as he embarks on a retelling of The Merchant of Venice. Through a series of interviews, they examine the charge of...
Recording of a Zoom presentation by Pam Peled that aims to put the Bard’s antisemitic tropes into context.
Made for television film. The play is set in the late 1940s, and tells the story about an official in a small mountain village and his attempt to put on a production of Hamlet. It was interpreted as a sharp...
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