The Venetian Looking-Glass

The Venetian Looking-Glass
Directed byGeorges Méliès
Based onThe Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
Production
company
Release date
  • 1905 (1905)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

The Venetian Looking-Glass (French: Le Miroir de Venise) was a 1905 French short silent film by Georges Méliès.[1]

The main character, consistently spelled "Schylock" in Méliès's materials, was inspired by Shylock from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.[2] Shakespeare-on-film scholar Judith Buchanan concludes that the film was "probably only mildly Shakespearean."[3]

The film was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 699–701 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as une mésaventure de Schylock ("a misadventure of Shylock").[2] It is currently presumed lost.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 349, ISBN 9782732437323
  2. ^ a b Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 178
  3. ^ Buchanan, Judith (2011), "Shakespeare and Silent Film", in Burnett, Mark Thornton; Streete, Adrian; Wray, Ramona (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 467–483 (here 471)


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