Word: shylocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City, New York Shakespeare Festival: George C. Scott's memorable Shylock, followed by The Tempest, in Central Park...
...simultaneously, Papp found himself in another cauldron. As the new theater's dedicatory play, he had picked The Merchant of Venice-and the New York Board of Rabbis loudly protested. In the part of Shylock, said the rabbis, Shakespeare had perpetrated "a distortion and defamation of our people and our faith.'' Through WCBS-TV, the entire city would have a chance to see the performance, and that was what bothered the rabbis most. "The television audience will be a mass audience," they argued. "It will include impressionable young people and teenagers, and many of its adults would...
Joseph Papp, raised an Orthodox Jew, went ahead with his performance and his TV commitments. Unhappily, despite the raspingly effective performance of George C. Scott as Shylock and a smoothly urbane Portia by Nan Martin, the production was not up to the usual Papp standard. But 200 critics and 100,000 rabbis could not shake Joe Papp out of his fortress now. His new amphitheater is handsomely set in a rocky grotto at the edge of a lake, and equipped with a mobile stage that can swiftly and silently be changed to suggest anything from a closeted interior to "another...
...first novel, The Human Season, Author Wallant wrote well of another sorrowing Jew. This time the theme is not nearly so fresh. But Sol Nazerman. the erudite Shylock of Harlem, is a creature of fascinating complexity. As the centerpiece of a flawed book, he is that literary rarity-the character whose sorrows seem as real as the reader...
From the beginning, Castelnuovo-Tedesco never had any doubt that his opera would win the Campari Prize and triumph over the jinx. "The Merchant is one of the least properly exploited of Shakespeare's plays," said he last week. And he added, paraphrasing his contemporary, Shylock: "I am content...