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\"merchant<\/a>By Davina Moss*<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to Venice! The city was, has been and continues to be a thriving, multicultural hub. It is uniquely placed centrally within Europe, on the water, to be open to all comers and both in Shakespeare\u2019s time and today, Venice is a centre of activity for those from all nations. Walking through St Mark\u2019s Square today, one loses count of the number of languages heard, and this has not changed over the generations.
\nFor The Merchant in Venice we wanted to harness this sense of the teeming, bustling, polyglot city for the world inhabited by our characters. While Shakespeare\u2019s English dominates, you will hear Italian, Spanish, French and many other languages on the tongues of our actors. Perhaps it will remind you of your time in Venice outside the theatre, where multiple languages clash and clatter together.
\nAnd our Shylocks in particular use Yiddish, Judeo-Venetian, Ladino and other forms of Jewish languages. Not all of these would have been in parlance at the same time, or necessarily in the ghetto of Venice, but they all form part of Jewish history. With our five Shylocks, Karin Coonrod\u2019s production highlights the multiplicity of Jewish experience; it is sufferance (\u201cthe badge of all our tribe\u201d) that unites them\u2014suffering, and the endurance of that suffering. Hearing these linguistic forms in the mouths of these talented actors helps bring to life a legacy of Jewish life of which Shylock forms only one part.
\nBut if setting Shakespeare\u2019s Merchant in Venice\u2019s actual ghetto does anything, it is that it carries Shylock through history and revisits the ghettoization of the Jews through time, an explication of Jewish suffering.
\nOur Shylocks speak the languages of many ghettos. Travel through time with them.<\/p>\n

*Davina Moss is an assistant dramaturg. This article was published in the booklet by Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice, Compagnia de\u2019 Colombari and Committee for the 500 years of the Ghetto on the occasion of the new production of \u201cThe Merchant of Venice\u201d performed for the first time in the Ghetto. The picture is by Andrea Messana.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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