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The Merchant of Venice " review by Lyn Gardner

Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe final image of this production by Israeli company Habima is a stark one. Small and crushed, as if weighed down by history itself, Jacob Cohen's broken Shylock " a man who has lost daughter, fortune and home " is seen, suitcase in hand, walking away from Venice, an eternal wandering Jew. But it was impossible not to think of other displaced people, too, most particularly the Palestinians…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47AM on May 29, 2012

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