Crossword clues for shylock
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"usurer, merciless creditor," 1786, from Jewish money-lender character in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" (c.1596).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) A loan shark; a usurer. 2 (context offensive ethnic slur English) A person of Jewish descent. vb. (context intransitive US English) To lend money at exorbitant rates of interest.
WordNet
n. someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest [syn: usurer, loan shark, moneylender]
a merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare
Wikipedia
Shylock is a musical based on Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, adapted and composed by Ed Dixon debuted at the York Theatre in 1987 with Dixon in the title role. The performance garnered him a Drama Desk nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. The cast included Lisa Vroman, Charles Pistone, Dennis Parlato, Ann Brown and Joel Fredricks. Kathline Rubbico was musical director with sets and costumes by James Morgan and lighting by Marcia Madeira. Lloyd Battista was the director. According to Dixon, Shylock was an attempt to sympathetically explain the motivations of the eponymous character.
Shylock is an award-winning monologue in one 80-minute act written by Canadian playwright Mark Leiren-Young. It premiered at Bard on the Beach on August 5, 1996, where it was directed by John Juliani and starred popular Canadian radio host, David Berner. Its American debut was in 1998 at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre where it was directed by Deborah Block, starred William Leach and was “Barrymore Recommended.” It has since been produced at theatres, Shakespeare Festivals and Fringes throughout Canada and the US (including the San Diego Repertory Theatre where it was staged opposite a controversial production of The Merchant of Venice), was translated for a production in Denmark and has been staged twice by the original actor, Berner, in Venice.
The play focuses on a Jewish actor named Jon Davies, who is featured as Shylock in a production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Jon addresses his audience at a “talk back” session, after the play is closed abruptly due to controversy over the play’s alleged antisemitism. Davies is portrayed both in and out of character, presenting and stripping down the layers between character and actor.
Shylock is a character in William Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice. A Venetian Jewish moneylender, Shylock is the play's principal antagonist. His defeat and conversion to Christianity forms the climax of the story.
Usage examples of "shylock".
Some bunch of sweat-stinking kids get a hydrant spouting and it drenches the storefront of a shylock who lives most of his time in Kipps Bay when he’s not sticking it to his Spanish Harlem customers, and he comes out of the pawnshop with a Louisville Slugger somebody hocked once, and he takes a swing at a mestizo urchin, and the next thi ng the precinc t k nows, they’ve got a three-star riot going on two full city blocks.
But the rest, the neighborhood Black Hand terrorists, the free-lance shylocks, the strong-arm bookmakers operating without the proper, that is to say paid, protection of the legal authorities, would have to go.
Then the Corleone Family shylocks were barred from the waterfront piers as were the Corleone Family bookmakers.
Union officials who owed allegiance to the Five Families were warned to stay neutral, and when the Corleone bookmakers and shylocks were still barred from the docks, Sonny sent Clemenza and his regime to wreak havoc upon the long shore.
Now this is a class-A tip, and I deserve a reward for it, and I need some fuckin’ money to cover bets with, because bookies and shylocks with no bankroll get hurt and can’t snitch to candy-ass Fed cocksuckers like you.
Tampoco olvidaré el soliloquio Rosencrantz habla con el Ángel, en el que un prestamista londinense del siglo XVI vanamente trata, al morir, de vindicar sus culpas, sin sospechar que la secreta justificación de su vida es haber inspirado a uno de sus clientes (que lo ha visto una sola vez y a quien no recuerda) el carácter de Shylock.
He still had his shylocking, but the bookies and tavern owners were suddenly very reluctant to make their payments, and he did not have the muscle now to force them.
But most of them are in the construction trades, shylocking, controlling the unions, getting the government contracts.
Worth millions and millions, and Shylocking me for what he wouldn't light his pipe with.
This man was the collector of delinquent accounts for Family-licensed shylocks in Manhattan.
Bookmakers and shylocks were paying the Corleone organization their protection money.
Two of the biggest shylocks on the waterfront disappeared, to be found months later in the New Jersey swamps.
Subsequent questioning of said shylocks revealed that the subject told them he would give them “big kickbacks” for referring “highticket” loan-seekers to him.
He took freebies from whores, borrowed money from shylocks, fought the shakes every morning with cigarettes, aspirin, and speed, and finally took ten thousand dollars to blow away a potential government witness in a hog lot.
Why, they're practically waiting for the marks at the spaceport when they arrive—with rigged rat card games, little rat shylocks, and little rat swindlers with mustaches.