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Kean's Shylock established his reputation as an actor. [7] Since Kean's time, many other actors who have played the role have chosen a sympathetic approach to the character. Edwin Booth was a notable exception, playing him as a simple villain, although his father Junius Brutus Booth had portrayed the character sympathetically.
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 .
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.
He joined the company as an actor later in the year, playing Shylock, Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Saturnius in Titus Andronicus and the title role in Richard III. [35] During 1957 Helpmann played the title role in Jean-Paul Sartre's Nekrassov, [46] and then took over the lead part of Sebastien in Coward's comedy Nude with Violin in ...
In 2004 Armstrong published his account of presenting his solo play in A Case for Shylock – Around the World with Shakespeare's Jew. [5] His So You Want To Do A Solo Show is an instructional book for professional actors, published by Nick Hern Books. [citation needed]
An early screen role for Barrit came in Alice through the Looking Glass (1998), in which he played Humpty Dumpty.. In 2003, he played Shylock in the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while in 2007 he appeared in The History Boys at Wyndham's Theatre portraying the general studies teacher, Hector, made famous by Richard Griffiths in the film version.
Geoffrey Streatfeild (born 1975) is an English actor in film, television, stage and radio. ... Shylock; Success Story, BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play, 6 March 2009;
Keith Joseph Michell (1 December 1926 – 20 November 2015) was an Australian actor who worked primarily in the United Kingdom, and was best known for his television and film portrayals of King Henry VIII. He appeared extensively in Shakespeare and other classics and musicals in Britain, and was also in several Broadway productions.