This poster provided by the National Changgeuk Company of Korea promotes its traditional Korean opera (changgeuk) production ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare set in Italy in the 16th century. It is classified as a ...

The play is like a well-worn glove ... "The most excellent Histories of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylock the Iewe towards the sayd Merchant. . . ." The fact is ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare set in Italy in the 16th century. It is classified as a ...

Portia, in disguise, defends Antonio from Shylock's legal suit. Shylock loses and the play ends with him being forced to renounce his faith and his fortune.

A gut-wrenching play sees Tracy-Ann Oberman masterly perform ... This updated adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’, adapted by Brigid Larmour and Tracy-Ann Oberman, has ...

Velvet was once among the most coveted fabrics in the world, but now only one family in Italy produces it the traditional way – and can trace its textile tradition back to 1499. Video by Eliot ...

Outstanding Actress in a Play: Lily Rabe was nominated but did not win. 2011 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Actor in a Play: Al Pacino was nominated but did not win.

In 1596, in the liberal Venice, Bassanio asks for a large amount to his friend, the merchant Antonio, to travel to Belmont and propose the gorgeous Portia. Antonio has invested all his money in ...

The winner will win her hand in marriage; the losers will lose her hand and much more. In Venice, the epicentre of consumption, speculation and debt, Bassanio borrows money from his friend Antonio ...

Portia, in disguise, defends Antonio from Shylock's legal suit. Shylock loses and the play ends with him being forced to renounce his faith and his fortune. Away, then! I am lock'd in one of them ...

Jeremy Irons, who played Antonio in the film version of The Merchant of Venice (2004), comments on the merits of producing a play with young actors.