Word: shylocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most difficult feats in acting is to play, in tandem, the rival roles created by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Two such matching pairs exist to test the sweep and sinew of an actor's craft: Marlowe's Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Shylock, Marlowe's Edward II and Shakespeare's Richard II. The last actor to play the two Jews on successive nights was Eric Porter at Stratford on Avon in 1965. Now, for the first time since 1903, the two kings are being doubled in repertory by an English actor named...
Still, at the ambiguous center of The Merchant of Venice is Shylock. No one knows exactly what to do with this embittered Jew, and Claudio Buchwald is no exception. Kenneth Tynan once described this character as "sort of a capitalistic Caliban." If that is the case, Buchwald is more a capitalist and less a Caliban. Yet though he misses much of the humor in Shylock. Buchwald's creation will be a tough one to forget. Wringing his hands and shakily glancing over his sagging shoulder, he fails to miss a physical or vocal nuance for his chosen portrayal. His feet...
...others were demanding that Hattie be given top billing alongside Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. The only "safe formula" to avoid racial offense, Cooke discovered, was adopted by a New York progressive school, which staged The Merchant of Venice. "Every boy or girl in the cast was Jewish. Except Shylock. His real name was Cynthia Adams...
...Edwardian England, an orphan named Kipps (Tommy Steele) finds a little girl on his waif length (Julia Foster). Before their friendship can mature, he is sent to far away London as an apprentice to a scrofulous Shylock. Kipps owns nothing in life but a sixpence, which he splits with his girl; he will come back to her, he promises, as soon as he can. But when his grandfather dies and leaves him a fortune, he forgets his vow and falls for a wealthy, beautiful snob. Can Kipps really be such a cad? Of course not. In the end, he loses...
...used-car dealer and friendly finance company is caveat emptor. Yet in an economy where outstanding credit totals $92.5 billion-at an annual cost of $12.5 billion in interest-the wary buyer or borrower is rare. Some of the interest rates charged-and paid -in the U.S. would scandalize Shylock. A Manhattan woman bought a $300 sofa that actually cost her $624 after two years of installment payments with interest of 108%. A Jersey City man ended up paying $420 for a TV set priced at $123.88, thanks to a 229% annual interest rate. One used car entailed...