After the Holocaust it became impossible to produce the play with Shylock as audiences for centuries had known him. As literary critic John Gross noted, he need not have been a Jew, but he is a Jew for a reason a hate figure to be mocked and reviled for our amusement
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If you wanted to throw a wrench into my theory about the cause of the Capulet-Montague feud in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, one needs only point out that in the earliest version, Lady Montague does not, in fact, have the final death in the play. Benvolio does.”What?” you cry aloud. “How?
Two actors, two props and the convergence of two cultures are all it takes to create an urgent, poetic and spiritual re imagining of the rarely seen First