The Merchant of Venice, 'supported by an English-speaking company' at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and performed on the English language stage in May 1903, starring Jacob P. Adler in the role of Shylock.

   Scenes from The Merchant of Venice, 'supported by an English-speaking company' at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and performed on the English language stage in May 1903, starring Jacob P. Adler in the role of Shylock.

   Yiddish-theatre great Jacob P. Adler made his first appearance on the English language stage in May 1903, playing Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The production, which toured Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, and finally New York, where it ran for months in multiple theatres. The run was so successful taht Adler returned to Broadway in 1905 in a repeat polyglot production, albeit with a different English-speaking cast.

The merchant of Venic, starring] Jacob P. Adler

Merchant of Venice, Jacob P. Adler

Jacob P. Adler (far right) as Shylock in ‘The Merchant of Venice’ 

The merchant of Venice [starring] Jacob P. Adler