Shylock is a main character from The Merchant of Venice, a play by William Shakespeare. Shylock is discriminated against by most of the characters in the play because he is Jewish. Shylock lends ...

Intelligent modern take on Shakespeare’s problem play directed by Arin Arbus and starring John Douglas Thompson as a superb ...

As long as we’re on the subject, I want to take a look at a famous speech from Merchant of Venice, the speech where Shylock justifies, to two of his tormentors, his thirst for vengeance.

Arin Arbus’s production of The Merchant of Venice is set in a bleak near future in which today’s broligarchs might well feel at home, writes Joyce McMillan ...

Portai has each party stand forth and questions them. Having asked if Antonio acknowledges the contract he made with Shylock and received an affirmative, Portia states that Shylock should show mercy.

Portia takes this moment to beg for his patience. Shylock, a greedy money-lender, provides Antonio a loan, even though Antonio often berates Shylock for being a Jew. The terms of the loan are that ...

Theatre For A New Audience is an American group based in New York City, and their 2022 production of The Merchant of Venice, which here marks the company’s Edinburgh debut, bristles with new word ...

In 1596, in the liberal Venice, Bassanio asks for a large amount to his friend, the merchant Antonio ... ships and borrows from the Jewish usurer Shylock, against whose people there is a great ...

Unlike much contemporary UK theatre, though, Arbus emphasises that this production of The Merchant of Venice is not “colour ... a prominent black actor as Shylock, and of the profound diversity ...

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