Theatre: Shame on you Shakespeare Shylock, the villain at the heart of The Merchant of Venice, is currently being rehabilitated in Trevor Nunn's revelatory National Theatre revival. Arnold Wesker, however, argues that the play's anti- Semitism renders it beyond redemption

The Independent - London | July 21, 1999| | Copyright

One play in the canon of world theatre will always arouse unease and controversy - Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Other plays have caused a stir in their time: Ibsen's Ghosts, shocking! Beckett's Waiting For Godot, meaningless! Genet's The Maids, irreverent! Osborne's A Patriot For Me, outrageous! Time, however, calms the huffing and puffing.

Societies shudder, absorb and finally embrace with pride their enfants terribles. The Merchant of Venice is beyond embrace. Whoever clasps it must bleed.

Second to Hamlet it is the most performed of all Shakespeare's works. Why? The play's ...

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