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* The Merchant of Venice, directed by Jonathan Miller, with Laurence Olivier as Shylock and Joan Plowright as Portia ( 1970 )
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Studying The Merchant Of Venice in high school and college has given many young people their notions about Jews.
In The Merchant of Venice Portia states " I will die as chaste as Diana, unless I be obtained by the manner of my father's will ".
The story of Barlaam and Josaphat was popular in the Middle Ages, appearing in such works as the Golden Legend, and a scene there involving three caskets eventually appeared, via Caxton's English translation of a Latin version, in Shakespeare's " Merchant of Venice ".
Mitchell played the male characters: Nick Bottom in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Launcelot Gobbo in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, among others.
Oxfordian William Farina refers to Shakespeare's apparent knowledge of the Jewish ghetto, Venetian architecture and laws in the plot of The Merchant of Venice, especially the city's " notorious Alien Statute ".
Oxfordians say this is similar to Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, who was indebted to Shylock for 3, 000 ducats against the successful return of his vessels.
Even thirty years after his death " Sultan Solyman " was quoted by the English playwright William Shakespeare as a military prodigy in The Merchant of Venice ( Act 2, Scene 1 ).
The second part ( concerning the caskets, known to English speakers from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice ) originates from about 800 AD from Joannes Damascensus's account of Barlaam and Josaphat and was written in Greek.
William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, probably written in the late 16th century, features Shylock, a Venetian Jew and his family.
* William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is first performed and his play The Merchant of Venice is published.
Other small screen roles include performances in The Sweeney ( Thames Television for ITV, 1978 ), Lovejoy ( BBC ), Waking the Dead ( BBC ), Kavanagh QC ( Carlton Television for ITV, he played a concentration camp survivor in the episode Ancient History ), The Merchant of Venice ( BBC, 1980 ) and Gormenghast.
* Abend-David, Dror, ' Scorned My Nation :' A Comparison of Translations of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish, New York: Peter-Lang, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8204-5798-7.
* The Merchant of Venice Navigator – Includes annotated text, line numbers, search engine, and scene summaries.
* A Contemporary English Version of The Merchant of Venice – includes extensive notes and commentary, with essays on " The Lottery " and " The Three Sals.
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In 1938, Max Reinhardt directed a Broadway production of The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder had adapted from Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy's Einen Jux will er sich machen ( 1842 ).
Most men aged 18 to 51 were " called up " for military service, except for those in " reserved occupations " or " essential services ": Farming, Railways, Medicine, Skilled Tradesmen in war industries, Firemen, Policemen, Coal Mining and the Merchant Navy, and unmarried women under 30 could be directed into war industries such as munitions factories, the Women's Land Army or the Women's Timber Corps.
Their films were for the most part produced by Merchant, directed by Ivory, and scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, with the noted exception of a few films.
Le Divorce is a 2003 Merchant Ivory Productions film directed by James Ivory from a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Ivory, based on Diane Johnson's bestselling novel.
More recently, Davis starred as himself in sitcom Life's Too Short, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
The film was directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, and with an adapted screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
) Merchant also directed a sitcom pilot called The Last Chancers, which aired on Comedy Lab in November 2002 and became a five-part series broadcast in December on E4.
Having already famously played Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice on the Yiddish stage at the People's Theater, he played the role again in a 1903 Broadway production, directed by Arthur Hopkins.
The Wild Party is a 1975 Merchant Ivory Productions film directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, and starring James Coco and Raquel Welch.
After training at the Central School of Speech and Drama, she worked in theatre, touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in Juno and the Paycock directed by Laurence Olivier, King Lear, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Merchant of Venice and as Hero in Franco Zeffirelli's production of Much Ado About Nothing.
He won the Olivier award for Best Actor in 1993 for his role in Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins and in 2000 for his role as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice directed by Trevor Nunn.
The series was co-produced by the BBC and HBO, and is created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, both of whom also star in it.
After many years of work in movie production ( she produced, among others, The Merchant of Venice, 2004, with Al Pacino ), Fenech accepted Quentin Tarantino's offer to star in another movie, Hostel: Part II ( 2007 ), directed by Eli Roth.
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