Miroir de Venise (Une Mesaventure de Shylock), Le

Alternative title

Venetian Looking Glass

Synopsis

Fiction film, possibly based on The Merchant of Venice.

Country

France

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Silent

Year of release

1905

Availability

No archive copy known. Presumed a lost film.

Notes

Source: Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (p. 34, 307). Ball surmises that there may be very little relationship to Shakespeare and notes that there is no extant scenario.

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Credits

Director

Georges Méliès