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. With whom is ...
Last night I finally saw The Merchant of Venice in Central Park, directed by Daniel Sullivan with Al Pacino as Shylock. I am, generally, a skeptic of productions that treat the play as something other ...
“Playing Shylock,” opening in Brooklyn, imagines the cancellation of Shakespeare’s controversial play about the humiliation of a Jewish moneylender. When Saul Rubinek walks on stage in “Playing ...
President Trump on Friday denied knowing that the word “Shylock” is seen as an antisemitic slur after using it at a rally in Iowa while extolling the tax perks of his One Big Beautiful Bill Act. “I’ve ...
In November 2003, when billionaire George Soros was first establishing himself as a force in the presidential campaign, a writer for the Web site GOPUSA spelled out his feelings about the financier ...
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Crown Publishing is lining up celebrated novelists to modernize the Bard’s plays in prose. Last fall came Jeanette Winterson’s The ...
(RNS) When the world commemorates the 400 th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death on April 23, he will be celebrated as the greatest writer in the English language. The Bard’s linguistic power ...
Donald Trump used the antisemitic term “Shylocks” while speaking at an event in Iowa Thursday night. The president employed the slur to describe predatory loan lenders while discussing the newly ...
THIS action was heard before the trial court at Venice, and is now brought up for review upon the full notes of the reporter, Mr. William Shakespeare. The length of time which has elapsed between the ...
"Oy gevalto, we're back on the Rialto." This bit of shtick pops out of the mouths of two of the three most interesting characters in Howard Jacobson's latest novel, "Shylock Is My Name": Simon ...
Last Saturday, roughly halfway through the first act of the Globe Theatre’s “The Merchant of Venice” at this year’s Lincoln Center Festival, your correspondent could be found, much to her astonishment ...
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