| Abstrakt: |
How far is it legitimate for a director to correct Shakespeare’s antisemitismin The Merchant of Venice?SO, begging a question or two, wrote the theatre critic Benedict Nightingale in a review of a recent London production of the play in which the Christians were portrayed as rabid Nazis. Almost fifty years after the Holocaust, it appears, it is still difficult for directors and critics alike to approach The Merchantwithout a feeling of unease. Current wisdom—or lingering guilt—insists that the play is, in a real and unacceptable sense, racist. |
