The Canadian acting legend sits down with Q's Tom Power to discuss his latest stage role in the one-man play Playing Shylock, ...

Is Shylock Jewish? studies Shakespeare's extensive use of stories from the Hebrew Bible in "The Merchant of Venice", and argues that Shylock and his daughter Jessica draw on recognizably Jewish ways ...

At its heart, Playing Shylock is a ghost story. When actor Saul Rubinek stammers into the Berkeley Street Theatre, he carries ...

Who has been telling Shylock that a Jew must not seek revenge? Not they. To be honest, it doesn’t seem to have occurred to them that Shylock might seek revenge upon his enemies – but they ...

Igor Golyak's "Merchant of Venice" asks, what if we treated the play like a comedy the way Shakespeare intended.

Shylock is discriminated against by most of the characters in the play because he is Jewish. Shylock lends Bassanio and Antonio money but states that if the loan is not repaid then he will be ...

Canadian actor Saul Rubinek joins The Agenda to discuss his new play "Playing ShylocK" and who gets to play Jewish characters ...

When British author Harry Freedman asks audiences to name a historical Jew from Venice, one name almost always comes up: Shylock. The moneylender who sought a pound of flesh for a transaction gone ...

While William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is problematic on many levels, one simple and sustaining truth surfaces in Shylock’s queries to his interlocutors: “I am a Jew! Hath not a ...

High-profile restaurateur Al Yazbek called his Jewish landlords “Shylock & Shylock” during a dispute over the premises of his ...