Venetian Ghetto - in Fiction

In Fiction

• William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, written ca. 1595, features Shylock, a Venetian Jew, and his family.
• Arnold Wesker's play The Merchant written in 1978 retells the story of Shylock and opens in the Nuovo Ghetto.
• Geraldine Brooks' 2008 novel People of the Book which traces the history of the Sarajevo Haggadah has a chapter with action taking place in 1609 in the Venetian Ghetto.
• Sarah Dunant's novel In the Company of the Courtesan, written in 2006, has some scenes which take place in a Jewish pawnshop in the Ghetto
• Susanna Clarke's 2004 novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell features a scene in the Ghetto.
• Hugo Pratt: Venezianische Legende. Corto Maltese. Bd 8. Novel. Carlson, Hamburg 1985, 1998. ISBN 3-551-71669-2
• Mirjam Pressler: Shylocks Tochter. Venedig im Jahre 1568. Novel. Alibaba Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, Bertelsmann, München 2005. ISBN 3-570-30172-9
• Rainer Maria Rilke: Eine Szene aus dem Ghetto. in: Rilke: Geschichten von lieben Gott. Insel, Leipzig 1931, Argon, Berlin 2006. (div. weitere Ausg.) ISBN 3-86610-045-0
• The trilogy by Israel Zangwill:
  • Kinder des Ghetto. 1897. Cronbach, Berlin 1897, 1913 (German)
  • Träumer des Ghetto. 1898. Cronbach, Berlin 1908, 1922 (German)
  • Komödien des Ghetto. 1907. Cronbach, Berlin 1910 (German)]
• Daniel Silva: A Death in Vienna. 2004. Novel (features scenes in Cannaregio). ISBN 0399151435