The pain of playing Shylock

What’s it like to play Shakespeare’s most controversial character? As a new RSC production opens, Patrick Stewart, Antony Sher and other former Shylocks reveal all Patrick Stewart Bristol Old Vic, 1963; Royal Shakespeare Company, 1978-9; stars in new RSC production Each time I come to Shylock , I come with a different perspective. The last time I played him, it was as a very brutal and angry man, a man not overly sensitive to the world around him, to his daughter, to Antonio. This time, I have found an individual who is more open and sensitive, still vengeful and angry but with seemingly more

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