Shylock

Shylock is treated awfully prior to the loan, making it a wonder he ever agrees to provide it.

Shylock Was Robbed, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Yet Shylock is an intense, passionate character in a great play, and Radford's film does them justice.

[A] man not without his reasons M-mv 2005

The villain of Shakespeare's play is of course a classic typical filthy stinking smelly stingy Godless sadistic Jew - 'Shylock' - but in Shakespeare's 16th Century.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

If you read “The Merchant of Venice” and don’t get that Shylock is a depiction of a * type*, not just a greedy individual who happens to be Jewish, you’re missing something pretty huge about the play.

Unfunny = Racist 2009

The way the Jews were treated, the loss of his duaghter and Antonio’s default on his loan culminate in a court scene in which Shylock is bent on revenge.

Shakespeare on the Big Screen « So Many Books 2005

Following Shakespeare's intention, his Shylock is a distinctly unlikable schemer who we nevertheless pity.

Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times Marc Porter Zasada 2011

Following Shakespeare's intention, his Shylock is a distinctly unlikable schemer who we nevertheless pity.

Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times Marc Porter Zasada 2011

Jew, by name Shylock, who had grown rich by lending money at high interest to Christian merchants.

The Children's Portion Various

The New York Board of Rabbis protested, calling Shylock "an amalgam of vindictiveness, cruelty and avarice."

NYT > Home Page 2010

The New York Board of Rabbis protested, calling Shylock "an amalgam of vindictiveness, cruelty and avarice."

NYT > Opinion 2010