HATE CRIMES ROCK A SUBVERSIVE COMEDY This show can never be nice: Along with The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy built squarely on misogyny, The Merchant of Venice, a tragicomedy festering with anti-Semitism, remains the Bard's most problematic play. But Shakespeare wrote it. Felt from all sides, there's humanity to spare. Truth overcomes prejudice as an […]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56PM on October 22, 2019