Captured live in High Definition at London’s Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre presents The Merchant of Venice, starring Double Olivier and Tony Award winner Jonathan Pryce as Shylock. The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most poetically dazzling and morally ambivalent plays. In some of its most highly charged scenes, the bard dramatizes the competing claims of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy; while in the character of Shylock, he created one of the most memorable outsiders in all theatre.