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Shylock: Media

fictional character

Videos

Watch a scene between Shylock and Portia from Shakespeare's “The Merchant of Venice”
Mordecai (Shylock) hands his bond to Portia at court in the 1923 film Der Kaufmann...
Video: Courtesy of the British Film Institute

Images

The Merchant of Venice
Edgar Wreford (right) performing as Shylock during a 1955 production of The Merchant...
Haywood Magee—Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A scene from The Merchant of Venice
Shylock Rebuffing Antonio (1795), painting by Richard Westall.
Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
A scene from The Merchant of Venice
Shylock and Jessica from the ‘Merchant of Venice', II, ii (1830), painting...
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Television movie
Laurence Olivier as Shylock (right) and Jeremy Brett as Bassanio in a scene from...
© ITV/Shutterstock.com
Film adaptation
Al Pacino as Shylock in a scene from the 2004 film The Merchant of Venice.
© 2004 Movision/UK Film Council/Avenue Pictures
Stage production
Patrick Stewart as Shylock.
© Robbie Jack—Corbis Entertainment/Getty Images
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