As long as we’re on the subject, I want to take a look at a famous speech from Merchant of Venice, the speech where Shylock justifies, to two of his tormentors, his thirst for vengeance.
Whereas Marlowe drew ‘cartoons’ and Ben Jonson ‘ideograms’, Shakespeare was the first writer to endow his dramatis personae with ‘human inwardness’. In characters from Malvolio to Mercurio, Bottom to ...
The play has been adapted from Shakespeare's original work and moves ... taking on the role of Shylock. Acclaimed actor Joseph Millson, known for The Last Kingdom and The Forsyte Saga, will ...