Shakespeare

Birth of usurer & the Death of Zero Mostel | | | Author | Arnold Wesker | |[pic] |Shakespeares loan shark in The merchant of Venice-the epitome of money-grabbing avarice and | | |cruelty-is, Arnold Wesker believes, a depreciate on the Jews and a reflection of Elizabethan racism. | | |Wesker, one of Britains most(prenominal) lordly playwrights, decided to create a counter portrayal to the | | |Bards unsavoury character by writing his own play, Shylock, in which the Jew is compassionate, | | |intelligent, and late moral. John Dexter, the world-renowned director, arranged to have it open on| | |Broadway in 1977 with Zero Mostel in the lead. The play promised to be a smashing box-office draw, with| | |high advance bookings, thanks to Mostel. But subsequently the archetypical preview in Philadelphia, Mostel fell | | |ill and died at pot days. The play opened on Broadway with Mostels understudy, but its momentum had| | |been fatally damaged and it spiraled into disaster. In this extraordinary book, Wesker records how | | |the people involved-including many of groundbreaking Yorks cultural elite-interacted in the making, and | | |unmaking, of an extraordinary theatrical event. | |[pic] ! | [pic] [pic] | current slue | back issues | history | subscribe | Operation Shylock Arnold Weskers Star-Crossed turn By JONATHAN WILSON In September 1977, the British playwright Arnold Weskers The Merchant (now called Shylock), a revisionist retooling of...If you want to get a wide essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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