描述
corrupt imaginings in The Merchant of Venice
SHYLOCK.TRIAL.VENICE looks at the central character, the central scene, and the central site of action in The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare. Through a Genealogy of stagings, this study offers Insights on scenographic imagination, a layered instrument that generates images through nothingness in the void of the empty stage. The images that are posited onstage as physical objects, simultaneously emerge in the consciousness of the Spectator as Imaginary objects. The study interrogates how scenography generates the Imaginary content of Shylock the Jew in the European performance context. Investigating the corrupt imaginings of the play in performance, the study offers a triadic model of the central images – Shylock-Trial-Venice – that constitute a system, in which smaller units replicate larger ones. While setting up a model of how to look at the play, scenography also sets up a model of how to imagine it. Lilja Blumenfeld is an Estonian scenographer and Professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
