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The award-winning monologue Shylock (1996) by Canadian playwright Mark Leiren-Young, focuses on a Jewish actor named Jon Davies, who is featured as Shylock in a production of The Merchant of Venice. [14] Jon addresses his audience at a "talk back" session, after the play is closed abruptly due to controversy over the play's alleged antisemitism ...
The main character, Jewish actor Jon Davies, asserts that Shakespeare intended the character of Shylock to be played as a villain in The Merchant of Venice based on the attitudes towards Jews during the era he was writing; thus, past productions either presented Shylock as a clown or tragic victim while maintaining the hostile attitude towards Jews in classical Venice. [4]
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan taken out on behalf of his dear friend, Bassanio, and provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, with seemingly inevitable fatal consequences.
Shylock - a Study by Joseph Keiley. The Merchant is a 1976 play in two acts [1] by the English dramatist Arnold Wesker. It is based on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and focuses on the Jewish Shylock character, that play's principal antagonist. [2] [3] Wesker began writing the play after seeing a 1973 performance by Laurence ...
Shylock is the principal antagonist of William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. Shylock may also refer to: Shylock, incidental music by Gabriel Fauré; Shylock, a 1940 Indian Tamil-language film; Shylock, an Indian Malayalam-language film; Shylock, a monologue by Mark Leiren-Young, premiered 1996
The Merchant of Venice is a 1969 drama short film directed by Orson Welles based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. While actually completed, it is frequently cited as an unfinished film , though better described as a partially lost film due to the loss of film elements.
The Merchant of Venice is an opera by André Tchaikowsky (1935–1982) to a libretto, based on the Shakespeare play, by John O'Brien. Written between 1968 and 1982, it was first performed in 2013 at the Bregenz Festival. The British premiere was presented by the Welsh National Opera in September 2016.
Dustin Hoffman – The Merchant of Venice as Shylock; Tom Hulce – A Few Good Men as Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, USN, JAG Corps; Maggie Smith – Lettice and Lovage as Lettice Douffet. Geraldine James – The Merchant of Venice as Portia; Mary-Louise Parker – Prelude to a Kiss as Rita Boyle; Kathleen Turner – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Maggie ...