Word: shylock
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...play is mainly about love, but it is also about hate--which brings us to Shylock. There must be at least half as many ways to play Shylock as to play Hamlet, and most of them have been tried. Max Adrian gives us an unsympathetic Shylock--bitter, gloating, sadistic. Adrian is constitutionally incapable of doing a slipshod job; and this is a distinguished performance. Morris Carnovsky's unsurpassable portrayal last summer was an extraordinarily complex one; and it is no reflection on Adrian if he cannot match it. Adrian's Shylock is simpler and more straightforward, and wholly consistent...
...Merchant of Venice (Caedmon, 2 LPs), is a rousing production containing Michael Redgrave's controversial Shylock, who demands his pound of flesh from Antonio in a thick and rather phony Jewish accent that is neither gefüllte fish nor fowl...
This summer's third American Shakespeare Festival is by far the best to date. Any group can justifiably take much pride in a season that gives us such great performances as Earle Hyman's Othello, Morris Carnovsky's Shylock and Alfred Drake's Benedick...
...human being." From the 18th century he cited the example of David Garrick's interpretation of King Lear, in which Garrick "showed for the first time the whole process though which a person actually goes insane." And from the 19th century he mentioned Edmund Kean's conception of Shylock as an Italian Jew only 38 years old, and said he wished somebody else would dare to try this approach sometime...
Instead of being humorous, the Shylock of Arthur Loeb emerges as a sympathetic, almost tragic figure. Loeb possesses a commanding stage presence and a fine speaking voice. When he limps across the stage, the limp is pathetic rather than ridiculous, and when he rages for justice, he seems to deserve it. This may be wrenching Shakespeare, but it is a pull in the right direction...