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Event Cinema: "The Merchant of Venice"

Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones) delivers an enigmatic performance as Shylock in the Bard’s highly charged dramedy of intolerance and mercy.

Thursday, November 10, 2016
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Visual Arts Center 104 Loew Auditorium
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films

“Jonathan Pryce, making his Globe debut, presents us with a Shylock of weight, gravity and considerable complexity.” The Guardian

Portia, a wealthy heiress of Belmont, is forced to set her suitors a challenge. The victor will win her hand in marriage; those who fail will lose her hand and much more. In Venice, the epicenter of consumption, speculation and debt, Bassanio borrows money from his friend Antonio to finance his attempt. Antonio, in turn, takes out a loan from the moneylender Shylock (Jonathan Pryce, Game of Thrones). The loan will be repaid when Antonio’s ships return to the city. But if the ships fail to return, and the money cannot be repaid, Antonio will give to Shylock a pound of his own flesh. And they do fail. And Shylock will have his ‘bond.’

In some of his most highly-charged scenes, Shakespeare dramatizes the competing claims of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy; while in the character of Shylock he created one of the most memorable outsiders in all theater. Runtime: 165m\

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