Arts: Jamaican High School to Present its take on Shakespeare Play in London

One of Shakespere's best-loved and most influential plays, "The Merchant of Venice", will have a

distinctly Jamaican flavour when high schoolers from Knox College, in the hills of Clarendon, presenttheir take on the classic at the Latymer Uper School in West London.

Knox, which won the second season of the competition organized by the Jamaica Shakespeare Company and UK-based charity Generating Genius, will present the play on February 27, beginning at 730 p.m.

In 2016, which also marked the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, Campion College toured London and Birmingham with their rendition of Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

Believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598, "The Merchant of Venice" is among Shakespeare's most oft-performed and heavily quoted plays. Among other features, the play contains the earliest known use of the phrase "with bated breath" (by Shylock, in Act I, Scene 3, "Shall I bend low and, in a bondman's key, / With bated breath and whisp'ring humbleness, / Say this ..."), which has come into common use to convey the idea of restraining one's breathing in anticipation or supplicance