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Hassana Moosa
Historical connections: The Black page in Henry Irving’s Victorian production of ‘The Merchant of Venice’
Shakespeare and Beyond
Historical connections: The Black page in Henry Irving’s Victorian production of ‘The Merchant of Venice’
Victorian director Henry Irving’s use of a Black page in his production of ‘The Merchant of Venice’ shows how forms of race-thinking had been sustained and intensified in the English theatrical imagination.