Academic year:
2016/17
Seminar n°:
9 (Week 2)
Teachers:
Paul M. FRANSSEN /Sabine SCHÜLTING
University:
Utrecht University / Freie Universität Berlin
Seminar presentation:
The seminar will focus on the representation of economic crises, and their entanglement with social, religious and communal conflicts, in three early modern plays: William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Coriolanus, and Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta. In a second step we will explore the ways in which 20th century adaptations (Arnold Wesker’s The Merchant and Bertolt Brecht’s Coriolan) have used the plays to address contemporary problems.
