Shakespeare on the American Yiddish stage /
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 th...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2002.
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Series: | Studies in theatre history and culture.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- "Gordin is greater than Shakespeare": the Jewish king and Queen Lear
- Classical influenza, or, Hamlet learns Yiddish
- Othello potpourri
- "Parents have hearts of stone": Romeo and Juliet
- "True Jewish Jew": a Shylock quartet.