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Theater Review: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Invictus Theatre Co. in Chicago) by Lawrence Bommer

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

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