There are many characters in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice. Take an in-depth look at the main ones identifying their key attributes and relationships and analysing their part in the ...

Theater review by Elysa Gardner. New York stages have hosted many estimable Shylocks, but I doubt that any of them has evoked slavery with greater resonance than John Douglas Thompson does in the ...

At Lincoln Center Festival, the Globe transformed "Merchant" into a play that was about anti-Semitism, not anti-Semitic itself.

"It goes without saying that 'The Merchant of Venice' is a desperately difficult play to stage for a 21st century audience," said Joyce McMillan in The Scotsman.Torn between his desire to give all ...

The Shylock character is, essentially, “a grotesque, anti-Semitic caricature,” a bloodthirsty villain eager to extract his “pound of flesh” from Antonio should he fail to pay his debt.

Antonio, an antisemitic merchant, takes a loan from the Jew, Shylock, to help his friend, Bassanio, court Portia, Renaissance lady of Venice. Antonio can’t repay the loan, and without mercy ...

John Douglas Thompson as Shylock in Shakespeare Theatre Company's “The Merchant of Venice.” ([[[Henry Grossman, Henry GROSSMAN 917-923-4114], Henry GROSSMAN 917-923-4114], Henry GROSSMAN 917 ...

For “The Merchant of Venice,” Golyak’s point of view emphasizes some of the play’s irreconcilable conflicts. He has set up his production with Antonio (Dennis Trainor) as the leader of a ...