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Portia, a wealthy heiress of Belmont, is forced to set her suitors a challenge. The winner will win her hand in marriage; the losers will lose her hand and much more. In Venice, the epicentre of consumption, speculation and debt, Bassanio borrows money from his friend Antonio to finance his attempt. Antonio, in turn, takes out a loan from the moneylender Shylock. The loan will be repaid when Antonio’s ships return to the city. But if the ships fail to return, and the money cannot be repaid, Antonio will give to Shylock a pound of his own flesh. And they do fail. And Shylock will have his ‘bond’.

Status: Released
Released Date: 2016-08-04
Runtime: 154 mins
Director: Jonathan Munby
Spoken language: English
Genres: Comedy
Original title: The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Production Companies: Shakespeare's Globe
Production Countries: United Kingdom

Jonathan Pryce

Dominic Mafham

Rachel Pickup

Daniel Lapaine

Douglas Brian Martin

Regé-Jean Page

Ben Lamb

David Sturzaker

Dorothea Myer-Bennett

Stefan Adegbola

Philip Cox

Phoebe Pryce

Scott Karim

Christopher Logan