Alan Yentob travels to the ghetto in Venice with award-winning novelist Howard Jacobson as he embarks on a retelling of Shakespeare's most performed play, The Merchant of Venice. Through a series of lively - often fiery - interviews, they examine the charge of anti-Semitism against Shakespeare, whose character Shylock remains one of the most odious and divisive fictional Jews in history.
How did the moneylender from Venice become such a useful propaganda tool in Nazi Germany? And how much of a liberty will Jacobson be taking when he uproots the action to modern-day Alderley Edge, and audaciously reinterprets the infamous 'pound of flesh'?
Interviewees include Antony Sher, Anthony Julius and Stephen Greenblatt.
亞倫·斯沃茨 蒂姆·伯納斯-李 科利·多克托羅 彼得·艾克斯萊 勞倫斯·萊斯格 戴維·西格爾 戴維·西羅塔 塔倫·斯蒂伯里克納-考夫曼 馬特·斯托勒 埃沃·蒂姆 本·威克勒 羅恩·懷登
Michael Polley Harry Gulkin Susy Buchan 約翰·布錢(qián) Mark Polley Joanna Polley Cathy Gulkin Marie Murphy Robert MacMillan Anne Tait Deirdre Bowen Victoria Mitchell Mort Ransen Geoffrey Bowes 湯姆·巴特勒