The Shylock Play

Synopsis

The present day: when Warsaw Ghetto escapee Sarah goes to the Venice Ghetto, and encounters a group of actors staging a dress rehearsal of The Merchant of Venice, she is confronted by a terrible story which touches her own life.

Julia Pascal's modern re-working of Shakespeare's controversial play questions how the antisemitic portrayal of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice has affected modern-day attitudes to Jewish people.

Themes

• Antisemitism
• Antisemitism--Drama
• Jews--Identity
• Jews--Identity--Drama
• Jews--Italy--Venice--Social conditions--Drama
• Jews--Social conditions
• PR6066.A745 S594 2008