The Merchant of Venice

Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Act 4 Scene 1 – ”The quality of mercy is not strained”

In Polly Findlay's Royal Shakespeare Company production 'The Me...

Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Act 1 Scene 3 Antonio and Bassanio agree a bond with Shylock

Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Act 5 Scene 1 – The rings

In Polly Findlay's Royal Shakespeare Company production 'The Merchant of Venice', Bassanio gives away th...

Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Act 4 Scene 1 – The pound of flesh

In Polly Findlay's Royal Shakespeare Company production 'The Merchant of Venice', Shylock deman...

Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Act 3 Scene 2 – Bassanio chooses a casket

In Polly Findlay's Royal Shakespeare Company production 'The Merchant of Venice', Bassan...

Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Act 3 Scene 1 – ”If you prick us do we not bleed”

In Polly Findlay's Royal Shakespeare Company production 'The Merchan...

Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Act 1 Scene 1 – Antonio becomes Bassanio’s guarantor

In Polly Findlay's Royal Shakespeare Company production 'The Merchant o...

Adventures in Poetry | The Quality of Mercy

The Merchant of Venice: Peggy Reynolds explores the legal, theological and linguistic complexities of Portia's speech with barone...

The Merchant of Venice (2004)

An adaptation of Shakespeare's play about a Jewish moneylender who seeks to forfeit a literal pound of flesh from his Christian nemesis. Starri...

Words and Music | Rings

Featuring William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

Words and Music | Life through a Screen

Excerpt from William Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice.

Words and Music | Courtroom Drama

Excerpt from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.

The Learning Zone | The Merchant of Venice

Schools programme on The Merchant of Venice.

The BBC Television Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice

A 1980 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakesp...

The Merchant of Venice (2001)

A performance of the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Award-winning adaption of Shakespeare's play, which moves the story to 1930s Venice.

Prefaces to Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice

A personal introduction to the play and its characters by Timothy West, who played Shylock in the 1980 Old Vic production of...

Play of the Month | The Merchant of Venice

A 1971 production of Shakespeare's classic play, broadcast as part of the Play of the Month drama strand. The Venice of Titian and...

The Merchant of Venice (1987)

A full-length radio adaptation of the play The Merchant of Venice, produced and directed by Martin Jenkins.

Bard on the Box | Colin Parry – Father of Tim, killed by the IRA Warrington bomb

Celebrity Shakespeare devotees join members of the public to recite some of Shakespear...

Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice

In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God, and when the gold is flowing, all is well. But when a contract betwee...

Shakespeare In Perspective | The Merchant of Venice

Wolf Mankowitz gives a personal view of The Merchant of Venice which, 'more than any other in the English language, estab...

Shakespeare: Love Across the Racial Divide | 3: The Merchant of Venice

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown focuses on the complex role of Shylock, and how he navigates being a Jew in a Chr...

Bard on the Box | Shakespeare Laboratory – The Merchant of Venice

In the second of two workshop films, controversial American director Peter Sellars relocates his new ...

Monday Play | The Merchant of Venice

A 1996 BBC radio adaptation of Shakespeare's thrilling courtroom drama The Merchant of Venice.

Drama on 3 | The Merchant of Venice

Andrew Scott, Ray Fearon, Hayley Atwell and Colin Morgan star in Shakespeare's drama of debt, greed and a society suspicious of religious...

Imagine… | Shylock’s Ghost

In this arts documentary, Alan Yentob travels to Venice with novelist Howard Jacobson, who has re-written Shakespeare's The Merchant o...