 | Merchant of Venice |  |
"If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh?
if you poison us, do we not die?
and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" Act III, scene i
Written: 1598
Charles Macklin ; 1740
Starring :
Reviewed on : 2002-11-04 14:16:43 | Around the year 1740, Macklin performed the role of Shylock with a ferocity and a danger that electrified the audience. Because the audience was used to the comedic interpretation of Granville's sort, Macklin's reinterpretation (and restoration of much of the text) caught the people's imagination. 'This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew,' wrote Alexander Pope.
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Sir John Gilbert, R.A.,
The Moneylenders
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