The Merchant of Venice

...The New York Times, scheduled because Mostel is soon to star on Broadway in "The Merchant," Arnold Wesker's adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." (Mostel died suddenly during the show's out-of-town tryout, having played only one...

In this article: Zero Mostel, Jim Brochu, Mark Teschner, General Hospital, Suicide, and New York City

...Festival Theatre, The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Theatre, The Vortex for the Donmar Warehouse and My Fair Lady, Candide and The Merchant of Venice for the National Theatre. Director Matthew White has previously directed The Last Five...

In this article: Sweet Charity, West End, London, Bob Fosse, Prince of Wales, Paul J. Medford, Tamzin Outhwaite, and Mark Umbers

...are they necessarily in the right order? It is certainly a leap for someone whose only previous experience of Shakespeare was studying The Merchant Of Venice at school and watching A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe theatre in London...

In this article: Abi Titmuss, John Leslie, Lady Macbeth, William Shakespeare, Judi Dench, David Walliams, Tea, Macbeth, DVD, and London

...second season played Othello, Macbeth, and Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He went on to play the title roles in Julius Caesar and The Merchant of Venice and, at the Bristol Old Vic, Antony in Antony and Cleopatra. In 1953 he was a...

In this article: Tyrone Guthrie, Douglas Campbell, Stratford, Christopher Plummer, Falstaff, and A Midsummer Night's Dream

...an important role in European history since the early modern period when Shakespeare wrote the first of many plays about bankers with his 'Merchant of Venice'. But public hangings, sail boats and steam engines have all been part of our...

In this article: Capitalism, Tax, Merchant of Venice, Martin Wolf, Financial Times, and Nouriel Roubini

...the graphic novels crafted by Hinds are used by schools and colleges. A full one-third of the sales of his versions of "King Lear,'' "The Merchant of Venice,'' and the epic poem "Beowulf'' have been to scholastic institutions. The same is...

In this article: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Beowulf, The Odyssey, Grendel, Candlewick Press, Bard, and Homer

He likes playing the lead role. If he were a Shakespearean actor, he would be "Hamlet" and "King Lear" and "Macbeth" and maybe "The Merchant of Venice." He is not as inherently tragic as those dudes, but he would dominate the drama and...

In this article: Pedro Martinez, Yankees, A.J. Burnett, Omar Vizquel, 2009 World Series, Hamlet, World Series, Game 6, and Don Zimmer

...that they need his vote fairly often, and then they go, hat in hand, to ask for his help. Oddly enough, I'm reminded of Shylock from "The Merchant Of Venice," who I always thought got a raw deal. The Antonios of the Democratic party have no...

In this article: Dede Scozzafava, Joe Lieberman, Republican Party, Ned Lamont, Barack Obama, New York, Democratic Party, and Sarah Palin

...South Carolina state to test the so-called 'Portia Hypothesis'. The thesis is named after Shakespeare's play, 'The Merchant of Venice', in which the heiress Portia masquerades as a male lawyer to argue before a judge the case of her...

In this article: Sonia Sotomayor, South Carolina, Shylock, Portia, Antonio, and Clemson University

...anticipation or some other strong emotion. Quinion says Shakespeare is the first writer known to have used the phrase, in The Merchant of Venice, when Shylock says to Antonio: "Shall I bend low and, in a bondman's key, with bated...

In this article: Philippines, Michael Quinion, Shylock, Antonio, and William Shakespeare