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In "Shylock," Doug Brook plays Jon Davies, an actor playing the role of Shylock in a production of "Merchant of Venice." (Photo/Edmond Kwong-ImageWurx)
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Jewish actor tackles Shylock, and audience expectations, in San Jose show

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 26, 2021May 26, 2021

Actor Doug Brook is not portraying the infamous moneylender Shylock in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” next month in San Jose. Rather, he is playing the role of an actor […]

UC Irvine Law Dean L. Song Richardson on stage in “Shakespeare Trial: The Shylock Appeal” (Courtesy Berkeley Law School)
Posted inTheater

Mock trial for Shylock is ‘intellectual reality TV’

by Patricia Corrigan February 10, 2020
The cast of “Curren$y,” Dan Wolf’s all-female hip-hop reinterpretation of "Merchant of Venice" (Photo/Bethanie Hines)
Posted inCulture

A ‘Merchant of Venice’ for our times — all female, all hip-hop

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 5, 2018July 11, 2018
a dignified man with a beard looks defiant
Posted inArt, Culture, On Stage, Theater

‘Merchant of Venice’: a play for our time?

Edmon Rodman by Edmon J. Rodman June 26, 2017March 23, 2018

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