About the book: year / The comedy "The Merchant of Venice" is one of the wonderful creations of the great English playwright, actor of the Globe Theater William Shakespeare, multidimensional and deep. Again and again our attention is drawn to the image of the Jewish moneylender Shylock, again and again we ask ourselves the question - who is he, Shylock? The embodiment of the power of gold, the cruelty of the money-grubber and evil vindictiveness, or a loving father suffering because of the flight of his daughter... or a victim of nationalist persecution and the corrupting influence of money? The question is still open. And until we find answers to all the questions posed by the brilliant Shakespeare, we are doomed to return again and again to his imperishable works.