Posts Tagged: The Merchant of Venice
Manhattan School Calls Off ‘Merchant of Venice’ After Parents Complain of Theme
JNS.org - A Manhattan middle school decided to cancel a production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” after some parents questioned whether the controversial play...
British Novelist Howard Jacobson Plans to Reimagine Shakespeare’s Shylock in New Book
British novelist Howard Jacobson plans to take on Shakespeare, rewriting the controversial "Merchant of Venice" with a decidedly more philo-Semitic twist, the BBC reported. "For an...
Leading Actors Dismiss Proposed Ban of Israeli Company
Several key figures of British theater have supported the participation of Israel's national theater company, Habima, at the Globe to Globe Shakespeare Festival. They were...
