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The Merchant of Venice review " Jonathan Pryce is a Shylock of weight and complexity by Michael Billington

Shakespeare's Globe, LondonIn Pryce's deeply considered performance, which dominates Jonathan Mumby's moving production, the moneylender is both tyrant and victim. Jonathan Pryce, making his Globe debut, presents us with a Shylock of weight, gravity and considerable complexity. It makes a startling contrast to the first Globe revival of this problematic play in 1998, in which the character became a hissed-at villain.…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:50AM on May 1, 2015

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