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A cartoon in a New Yorker magazine issue of the late 1930s showed Adolf Hitler pinning a Nazi medal on William Shakespeare for his perceived anti-Semitic slant in his play “The Merchant of Venice.” In ...

Last Saturday, roughly halfway through the first act of the Globe Theatre’s “The Merchant of Venice” at this year’s Lincoln Center Festival, your correspondent could be found, much to her astonishment ...

As long as we’re on the subject, I want to take a look at a famous speech from Merchant of Venice, the speech where Shylock justifies, to two of his tormentors, his thirst for vengeance. With whom is ...

There had never before been a big-screen version of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice—Orson Welles had given up in the middle of rehearsals, and Laurence Olivier did a stage production but could ...

A new production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice—with the first black Shylock in New York in almost 200 years—completes its run at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn this weekend ...

Perhaps. The anti-Semitism of the Venetian bourse is certainly pronounced in Alexander’s updating of the action to a contemporary Rialto, in which the mobile phone has taken on plenty of the lifting ...

The quality of mercy can in fact be strained, especially when it comes to the fate of a central character in one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Notwithstanding its oft-quoted proverbs and ingenious ...