A cartoon in a New Yorker magazine issue of the late 1930s showed Adolf Hitler pinning a Nazi medal on William Shakespeare for his perceived anti-Semitic slant in his play “The Merchant of Venice.” In ...

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will present the Starvox Entertainment production Playing Shylock by Mark Leiren-Young, ...

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 ...

Al Pacino plays the original misunderstood godfather Shylock in Shakespear’s Merchant of Venice. The terms on which Michael Radford adapts this 16th-century text give no countenance to bigotry, though ...

“The Shylock and the Shakespeareans,” onstage at Greenwich Village’s New Ohio Theatre, is told from the perspective a Jewish diamond merchant who is called “Shylock” as a slur. (New York Jewish Week) ...

For what's ostensibly a comedy, "The Merchant of Venice" has a dark heart and leaves a bitter aftertaste. Loyalty, generosity and mercy are the goods it advertises, but they come laced with bigotry ...

The first big-budget, star-enhanced feature film of one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays is cause for general celebration — isn’t it? Yes and no. When the play is “The Merchant of Venice,” it lumbers ...

Where does expression end and censorship begin? And who decides whether something is art or just plain offensive? Such are the questions raised in "Shylock," a production of the Artistic Village of ...

Technically, "The Merchant of Venice" is categorized as one of Shakespeare's comedies, in that it has several pairs of scheming lovers, women pulling off some rather unlikely gender masquerades and a ...

The quality of mercy can in fact be strained, especially when it comes to the fate of a central character in one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Notwithstanding its oft-quoted proverbs and ingenious ...

Pretty much every lawyer in the English-speaking world has heard of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Merchant is one of Shakespeare's "problem plays." For a comedy, it isn't very funny, and the ...

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 ...