The Merchant of Venice (2004) - film adaptation of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Dror Abend-David (University of Florida)

Ed. by Ema Vyroubalova, Trinity College Dublin
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Domains

Cinema/ Film/ TV

Dates

Date of occurrence 2004

Places

England (Location)

Genres and Modes

Adaptation

Adapted from William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Directed by Michael Radford. Starring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes and Lynn Collins. English. Color. 131 minutes.

Despite the little interest that Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (1596) received during the seventeenth century, it has been the subject of great interest in later eras, as the topics of nation, modern law, immigration and minority rights became increasingly important. The play has certainly been the subject of a great deal of interest during the twentieth century, surrounding the topics of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and Jewish nationality. While the cinematic history of the play includes …

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Citation: Abend-David, Dror. "The Merchant of Venice (2004) - film adaptation of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 February 2016 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19420, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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