Fassbinder, la ville et les Juifs
(2014) Coup de théâtre — n° 28, p. 59-88 (2014)
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- (en) If some avatars of "The Merchant of Venice" are more difficult to recognize than others, they are not necessarily less meaningful. In 1975, Fassbinder caused a scandal with his play, "The Garbage, the City and Death", in which a 'rich Jew', an unscrupulous real estate developer, takes under his wing a prostitute and ends up killing her. The article identifies some elements to link Fassbinder’s text to Shakespeare's, such as the context of his writing and some dramaturgical aspects, including the story and the characters. Surprising similarities emerge, for example between present-day Frankfurt and former Venice both, powerful financial centres; between anti-Semitism in post-war Germany and the feelings against Jews in Elizabethan times; or between the inner struggle of a poor prostitute to free herself and the challenge of a wealthy heiress to live a happy marriage.
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Goriely, S. (2014). Fassbinder, la ville et les Juifs. Coup de théâtre, 28, 59-88. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/272697 (Original work published 2014)