Word: shylock
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...that descriptive dialogue and verse. What [director] Michael Radford did with the script was cut about a third without sacrificing the story line. As a result, the story plays much more dramatically. In the film, your character, Antonio, has to spit on Al Pacino's character, Shylock. What was that like? Actually, with the way movies are filmed now, I was spitting on an X-mark in one location and Al was being spit upon by someone else at a different location. The Merchant of Venice is often criticized for its portrayal of Jews. Do you think Shakespeare was anti...
...been reluctant to promote itself. And it is not likely to be regarded in the same formidable category as some of the company’s more outlandish and controversial Shakespeare productions of the past decade—including Andrei Serban’s Merchant of Venice, which portrayed Shylock as a lip-smacking comic villain, and Ron Daniel’s complete Henry IV, with motorcycling guards and a tavern strung with Christmas lights...
...Laura P. Perry ’04, director of the Athena production, does not consider Shakespeare’s portrayal of the Jewish moneylender Shylock as a heartless businessman to be anti-Semitic. If so, she said, the play is equally anti-Christian, for its Christian characters appear equally cruel and far more deceitful...
...dynamo. To very different roles - from the worried husband in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass to the ruthless political fixer in Alistair Beaton's Feelgood - he brings a riveting, nervous energy. And he knows how to control it; the most compelling moment of his 1999 Olivier Award-winning Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Royal National Theatre was the character's sudden calm, as that energy was channeled into an overwhelming quest for revenge. Yet most people have never heard...
...home. "You can feel the impact you have on people," he says. "It's humbling." Now, at 51, he is set for perhaps the most humbling giant step of his career, one that may finally make people stop asking, "Henry who?" Q&A TIME: There was talk after Shylock of your doing Fiddler on the Roof, but you were reluctant to be typecast as a Jewish actor. So why Bialystock, a very Jewish role? GOODMAN: I want to celebrate being a Jewish actor, but I don't want to become trapped and ghettoized. My Jewishness is there to be tapped...