Word: shylocking
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...have received in New York during the last few years, and despite the favorable criticisms received by the company from the New York critics, there remains a tendency not to believe without seeing. Bostonians now have a chance to see at the Plymouth Theater, where 1947-48's smash, "Shylock and His Daughter," is staying for a five-performance...
This play attempts to look at the situation from the point of view of the Jew, to discover his motivations, his thoughts, his conflicts. In the process it has managed to give the figure of Shylock a genuine dignity and impressiveness which, at least to this reviewer, the character in Shakespeare's play seems to lack whether sentimentally or straight forwardly played. In this version the story was heavily weighted and sometimes as illogical as Shakespeare, in particular the handling of the escape of Jessica from the ghetto...
Other would-be Pagliacci jumped at the idea. Minerva Pious, weary of Pansy Nussbaum, was a creditable Lady Macbeth. Ezra Stone, still unhappily and profitably playing Henry Aldrich at 30, would try Shylock. Jack Pearl would try King Lear; Morey Amsterdam was set to do Cyrano. Henry Morgan agreed to do a show, but couldn't decide on a role: "Anything but Shakespeare . . . I told them to get me something where a guy goes crazy. With a little nudge I can go out of my mind quite easily...
...Detroit, Indiana University Professor John Robert Moore averred that Shakespeare was not antiSemitic. Shylock, said he, was not intended as a gibe at the Jews: Shakespeare meant him to be played as a comic figure, like Pantaloon...
...other languages. Their translations went out by short wave to small portable receiving sets (with earphones attached) which are issued to all delegates and visitors. They let the listener move about, untethered by wires. Vishinsky digressed to the Marshall Plan: ". . . The U.S. [wants] guarantees [like that] used by Mr. Shylock, when he demanded a pound of flesh...