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Fiction film based on The Merchant of Venice in which the daughter of a pious Jew steals money from her father and elopes with her lover who has been borrowing from Shylock. Shylock’s pursuit of his...
Joel Hurstfield, Astor Professor of English History at University College, London questions whether Marlowe and Shakespeare ever met a Jew? Professor Hurstfield asks this question in the light of The Jew of...
G. H, Hunter and Martin Wright, University of Warwick, discuss the problems of heroic villainy in Macbeth, Richard III and The Jew of Malta.
Feature film. In nineteenth-century Austria, a young Jew leaves the ghetto to become an actor. He eventually becomes famous and is reunited with his disapproving Rabbi father. Ernst Deutsch, as the Jew...
Feature film re-locating Romeo and Juliet to modern Israel and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Romeo is an Israeli Jew and Juliet a young Palestinian. The film doesn’t follow the text but alludes to many...
Harry E. Humphrey recites the Seven Ages of Man speech from As You Like It (III ii) and Hamlet’s advice to the players (11 Vii); on the reverse side he recites Shylock’s justification of the Jew (III i).
Feature film in theory based on Shakespeare’s own sources for The Merchant of Venice but in practice partly Shakespeare and partly director Felner’s invention. Werner Krauss is Shylock.
A personal view of the play presented by Wolf Mankowitz. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by...
A thirteen-part television series, presented by Richard Ouzounian, on the history of the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Episode 3 looks at Stratford’s growth during these years. Zoe Caldwell...
Feature film based on the play by Jacob Gordin. A feast is given by a wealthy Jewish merchant, David Moishele, in mid-19th century Vilna, where he is surrounded by his family, friends and servants. As he...
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