THE GLOBE’SÂ STUNNING PRODUCTION HIGHLIGHTSÂ SHAKESPEARE'S PLEA FOR DIGNITYÂ AS MUCH AS MERCY A decade ago a Chicago critic notoriously concluded his review of The Merchant of Venice by offering a rather perverse take on Shakespeare's supposedly anti-Semitic play. In a case of devil's advocacy he argued that Shylock's punishment (for trying to cancel a debt by killing […]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:36PM on August 7, 2016