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English: Charles Macklin as Shylock, Maria Macklin is Portia, Michael Dyer as Gratiano, Matthew Clarke as Antonio, Robert Bensley as Bassiano. The figure on the left is Lord Mansfield who is thought to have (might have) commissioned the painting.() c. 1768 by Johann Zoffan
Charles Macklin as Shylock is a c.1768 oil painting by the German-born British artist Johan Zoffany. [ 1 ] A conversation piece , it features a group portrait painting of actors performing the courtroom scene in William Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice .
Shylock and Portia (1835) by Thomas Sully. Many modern readers and audiences have read the play as a plea for tolerance, with Shylock as a sympathetic character. Shylock's trial at the end of the play is a mockery of justice, with Portia acting as a judge when she has no real right to do so.
Native name: Folger Shakespeare Library: Location: 201 East Capitol Street SE Washington, D.C. United States of America. ... Shylock and Portia (1835), from Act IV ...
Macklin's most important role, the one that catapulted him to stardom in eighteenth-century London, was Shylock in The Merchant of Venice [1] on 14 February 1741. [2] For several decades, the popular version of the play was a "fixed" text by George Granville, titled The Jew of Venice.
Jo Ellis, a Black Hawk pilot with the Virginia Army National Guard who is transgender, was falsely identified as the captain flying the U.S. military helicopter with an American Airlines jet in ...
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The satirical effigy – which sits only a few blocks from the White House on Freedom Plaza – pays ‘tribute’ to Trump and the ‘very fine people’ who marched through Charlottesville in 2017