https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/shakespeare/index.php?id=3315 Index des publications de Traducteur Claire Marché fr 0 https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/shakespeare/index.php?id=434 Julia Pascal’s adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, which openedat the Arcola Theatre in London in 2007, tackles the problematic place of the spectacle in this play more subtly than other playwrights and directors, who have cut, corrected, bowdlerized, framed or thoroughly rewritten the play without managing to de-familiarize their audiences from the rapt and mindless fascination generated by knife-wielding Jew in the trial scene.Pascal’s adaptation therefore represents an important point of departure from late twentieth-century stage traditions, which are not only ineffective but positively detrimental when it comes to tackling the spectacular image of the knife-wielding Jew at the heart of the trial scene. ven., 17 sept. 2010 12:34:03 +0200 mar., 24 févr. 2026 10:38:54 +0100 https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/shakespeare/index.php?id=434