Synopsis
In this arts documentary, Alan Yentob travels to Venice with novelist Howard Jacobson, who has re-written Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as a novel, Shylock Is My Name. They examine the charge of anti-Semitism against Shakespeare, whose character Shylock remains one of the most divisive fictional Jews in history.
Further Information
Similar plays, poems and sonnets
Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Act 4 Scene 1 - ''The quality of mercy is not strained''
In Polly Findlay's Royal Shakespeare Company production 'The Merchant of Venice', Portia, disguised as a male lawyer, tries to convince Shylock to have mercy on Antonio.
