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Which were the most successful performances of The Merchant of Venice?
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Early productions of the play focused on the relationship between Bassanio and Portia, and the character of Shylock was a kind of comic relief. Later, however, the character of Shylock proved to be the most interesting in the play and attracted the star actors. In 1741 Charles Macklin played Shylock as an out-and-out villain. Edmund Kean in 1814 had a more sympathetic but still villainous reading. Sir Henry Irving began a tradition of playing Shylock as a sympathetic character in a famous production in 1879 with Ellen Terry as Portia. Sir Laurence Olivier played Shylock as a Victorian businessman in 1970 in a National Theatre production directed by Jonathan Miller, and which was later televised. David Suchet and Dustin Hoffman have both famously played Shylock, and Patrick Stewart played him as a smarmy, ingratiating character. More recently a feature film was released in 2004 directed by Michael Radford and starring Al Pacino as Shylock.
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