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Shylock in Germany

Antisemitism and the German Theatre from The Enlightenment to the Nazis

By: Andrew G. Bonnell

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Shylock in Germany

Antisemitism and the German Theatre from The Enlightenment to the Nazis

By: Andrew G. Bonnell

How did the catastrophic development of antisemitism in Germany interact with the portrayal of Shylock on the German stage? Here Andrew Bonnell gives us the first cultural history of this tragic character from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" as performed on the German stage from the late eighteenth century to the end of World War II. In addition to analysing the performances of the most famous German actors in the role from 1777 to 1944, "Shylock in Germany" looks at the rising and falling popularity of "The Merchant of Venice" across Germany in this period, and the extent to which the role's history reflects changes in the situation of Jews in Germany and Austria.It follows the evolution of Shylock in nineteenth century and Imperial Germany, from the formative years of the modern German theatre as a cultural (and civic) institution; through the Weimar Republic, an epoch remembered for innovation and experiment, but also a period marked by an estrangement between an aggressively modernist metropolitan culture and a provincial cultural life which clung more to continuity; and, finally, considers the impact of the Nazi period with its murderous state-ordained antisemitism. Shylock's career in Germany after 1933 was neither as conspicuous nor as unambiguous as one might expect. Using archival research and drawing on much primary source material, Bonnell does not confine the book to theatre history only - but instead uses the changing portrayal of Shylock to analyse German cultural attitudes towards Jews over time.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857716808

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Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs: The Mental World of German Social Democrats, 1863–1914

By: Andrew G. Bonnell

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Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs: The Mental World of German Social Democrats, 1863–1914

By: Andrew G. Bonnell

The German Social Democratic Party was the world’s first million-strong political party. This book examines key themes around which the party organized its mainly working-class membership, with a focus on the experiences and outlook of rank-and-file party members.

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9004300635

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9789004300637

Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity

By: Andrew G. Bonnell

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Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity

By: Andrew G. Bonnell

Robert Michels (1876-1936) is best known for his 1911 book Political Parties, which is still a standard reference in political science debates. Michels' work sought to prove an "iron law of oligarchy" that governs the organisational evolution of democratic political parties. The work was closely informed by Michels' engagement with the German Social Democratic Party in the early 1900s, his involvement in radical politics in France and Italy in this period, and by his interest in a range of intellectual and social movements - including feminism, nationalism, racial theory, and the emerging disciplines of sociology and political science. Using archival and printed sources hitherto overlooked in work on Michels, this new study contests previous arguments which have sought to explain Michels as a disillusioned adherent of ideas of direct democracy or as an extremist moving from revolutionary syndicalism to fascism. The biographical and intellectual influences on Michels are shown to be more complex, and more transnational, than such schematic explanations have allowed. Andrew Bonnell sheds new light on Michels' relationship with the German Social Democratic Party and on his understanding of his own role as an intellectual in a workers' party. Bonnell also analyses Michels' problematical relationship with revolutionary syndicalism in France and Italy. Michels was connected to a possibly uniquely diverse network of intellectual and political contacts in pre-1914 Europe. This transnational intellectual history illuminates the intellectual worlds in which Michels moved and presents a new interpretation of his shift from the radical left of the spectrum to Italian fascism, an intellectual itinerary which has intrigued many historians.

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Oxford University Press

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0192871846

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9780192871848

The People's Stage in Imperial Germany

Social Democracy and Culture 1890-1914

By: Andrew Bonnell

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The People's Stage in Imperial Germany

Social Democracy and Culture 1890-1914

By: Andrew Bonnell

This book examines the history of the Freie Volksbuhne (Free People's Theatre), Berlin, from 1890-1914, in the light of the cultural theory and practice of German Social Democracy in Imperial Germany. The clash between German Social Democracy - the party, intellectuals and workers - and the German Imperial State was played out in the Freie Volksbahne (Free People's Theatre) founded by intellectuals to energize working class political awareness of drama with a political and social cutting edge. It fell foul of state censorship, lost its bite, yet prospered. The book looks in detail at the various programmes guiding the Volksbuhne's work and at the reception of the plays by the largely working-class audience, to offer a detailed study of the interactions between cultural and political history in Imperial Germany.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857715607

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Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity

By: Andrew G. Bonnell

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Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs

The Mental World of German Social Democrats, 1863-1914

By: Andrew G. Bonnell

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The Mental World of German Social Democrats, 1863-1914

By: Andrew G. Bonnell

This probing history offers an in-depth examination of the robust role of the German Social Democratic party in the lives of its members.

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Historical Materialism

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1642596000

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Reminiscences of Andrew A. Bonar

By: Andrew A. Bonar,Marjory Bonar

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Reminiscences of Andrew A. Bonar

By: Andrew A. Bonar,Marjory Bonar

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Palala Press

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137820204X

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The Works of the Reverend and Pious Andrew Gray

By: Andrew Gray

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The Works of the Reverend and Pious Andrew Gray

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Shylock in Germany

Shylock in Germany

Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs: The Mental World of German Social Democrats, 1863–1914

Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs: The Mental World of German Social Democrats, 1863–1914

Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity

Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity

The People's Stage in Imperial Germany

The People's Stage in Imperial Germany

Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity

Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity

Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs

Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs

Reminiscences of Andrew A. Bonar

Reminiscences of Andrew A. Bonar

The Works of the Reverend and Pious Andrew Gray

The Works of the Reverend and Pious Andrew Gray

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