The Merchant of Venice.
The Merchant of Venice Venice (vĕn`ĭs), Ital. Venezia, city (1991 pop. 309,422), capital of Venetia and of Venice prov., NE Italy, built on 118 alluvial islets within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice (an arm of the Adriatic Sea). (DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc
Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. )
Al Pacino is Shylock Shylock
shrewd, avaricious moneylender. [Br. Lit.: Merchant of Venice]
See : Usury in this daring film adaptation of Shakespeare's powerful drama, set in 16th-century Venice. If the merchant, Antonio, doesn't pay his debts, Shylock is sure to extract a horrifying price: a pound of the man's own flesh.
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