Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Buccola, Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word SP - 229-47 ID - bbbc882 T1 - "Two Merchants: The Glow of the Roaring Twenties and the Shadow of 9/11" AU - Shapiro, Michael PY - 2013 DA - 2013 KW - anti-Semitism LA - English AB - Compares Barbara Gaines's 1997 and 2005 productions of Merchant of Venice, arguing that the events of 9/11 shaped the differences between the two; notes that the 1997 production primarily concerns the anti-Semitic environment of a 1920s New York while the 2005 production deals with "ethnic, political, and religious conflicts" which characterize the concerns of post 9/11 American society. ER -