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...Jewels,” despite the obviousness of its eponymous theme, is a masterpiece, and the Boston Ballet Company rises to the challenge of presenting it as such.“Emeralds,” set to Gabriel Faure’s “Pelleas et Melisande and Shylock,” employs the vocabulary of French classical ballet. The story of Pelleas et Melisande is a mysterious tale evoking the origins of the French national sensibility. It features pastoral and water imagery which is reflected in the fluid, symmetrical movement of the dancers, as well as the effective...
...heroes, and the big villains were the bankers, who foreclosed on homes and farms, sent widows and orphans into the streets to beg and stoked a vivid genre of populist movies that forged in the mass audience's mind an indelible image of the pompous, rapacious plutocrat. Not since Shylock had moneylenders taken such a bad rap. Or money-nonlenders, which is what we have some of today. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...sink to believing myths about the Shakespeare-the-person. The chapter on the “Merchant of Venice” (subtitled “The Question of Intention”) grapples with the problem of Shakespeare’s motive in the representation of Jews via Shylock. Garber seems to bring us increasingly closer to Shakespeare by means of her meticulous analysis of the character’s development over time in productions and in secondary literature. Although she reminds us repeatedly that we will never know the playwright or the definitive answer to the problems Shylock presents, Garber...
...bulwark between themselves and "barbaric" blacks. Class and race divisions were institutionalized and internalized. Asian settlers saw indigenous Africans as Calibans - as crude, lascivious and untrustworthy as The Tempest's half-man, half-demon. Africans, in turn, detested the brown interlopers. To them, Asian merchants were like Shylock: usurers and exploiters...
...where's the fun in that? Love and duty are a puny match for the epochal mischief a prime bad guy can stir up. The villain may be the supporting part, but it's often the juiciest--from the snake upstaging Adam in the Garden of Eden to Shylock eclipsing Antonio to Jack Nicholson as the Joker in Batman swiping the spotlight from (hmm, who was that?) Michael Keaton...