Tour Review: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Shakespeare's Globe)
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 […]