André Tchaikowsky’s sole opera The Merchant of Venice was written in the years just before his death in 1982. He offered it to English National Opera where it was considered to the extent of receiving ...
The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. It is ...
Daily Herald: Janus Theatre puts on timely production of Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’
Janus Theatre puts on timely production of Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’
Regarded as one of William Shakespeare’s greatest plays, “The Merchant of Venice” has also been a painful thorn in Jewish sides, its antagonist Shylock epitomizing the stereotype of the miserly Jew ...
F. Murray Abraham untangles the controversies surrounding “The Merchant of Venice,” addressing the ubiquitous anti-Semitism that characterized Europe in Shakespeare’s time. Shakespeare Uncovered is ...
Digital Journal: Review: ‘The Merchant of Venice’ opens Off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company
The cast of 'The Merchant of Venice.' Photo Credit: Kirill Simakov The cast of 'The Merchant of Venice.' Photo Credit: Kirill Simakov The Off-Broadway production of “The Merchant of Venice” opened Off ...
Review: ‘The Merchant of Venice’ opens Off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” Shylock's words may have been written in the 1590s, ...