'The cast all abused me': the pain of playing Shylock
What's it like to play Shakespeare's most controversial character? As a new RSC production opens, Patrick Stewart, Antony Sher and other former Shylocks reveal allPatrick Stewart Bristol Old Vic, 1963; Royal Shakespeare Company, 1978-9; stars in new RSC productionEach time I come to Shylock, I come with a different perspective. The last time I played him, it was as a very brutal and angry man, a man not overly sensit…