Word: shylocking
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Then, too, there are the scales, dagger, and document used by Edmund Keane in his portrayal of Shylock in the "Merchant of Venice," a candle snuffer used by Ellen Terry, and a bronze statue of Sarah Bernhardt presented to her by the magician Houdini...
...sentimentalists there were such pieces as the flashily painted Exit Clown, Ballet Girl and Harlequin, and the portrait of Sir Henry Irving as Shylock. And for college boys there were the Shinn nudes, mostly in pastel on colored paper with the high lights carefully brought out. There were enough of these young ladies gazing into mirrors (see cut), reclining on sofas, etc., etc. to outfit a dozen cocktail bars...
...born 21 years ago near smart Tuxedo. N. Y. Her upbringing in horsy Dutchess County was well calculated to make her think of the theatre as a place into which nice people do not venture until the middle of the first act. Her first experience in drama was playing Shylock at fashionable Miss Chapin's School in Manhattan...
...Producer Reinhardt drilled his cast from a German script. For a stage, instead of the Piazza San Marco, where most Venetian festivals are held, he chose an obscure and humble piazza called Campo San Trovaso, bounded by a church, two 16th Century tenement houses and a small canal. Shylock's miserly squawkings came from a bridge still decorated by the arms of the Venetian Republic. Gratiano cruised about the canal in a medieval gondola. A garden wall of one of the tenements was transformed into the avenue to Portia's house on the mainland...
Characteristically elaborate were Reinhardt's addenda to the play: incidental music written by Victor de Sabata; Moorish dancers to accompany the Prince of Morocco and appear in a ballet between the acts; a crowd of townsfolk to demonstrate against Shylock...