The Merchant of Venice was likely written between 1596 and 1598, only a few years after plague had temporarily closed London's theaters. This was a period of great uncertainty in English society, ...

Pretty much every lawyer in the English-speaking world has heard of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Merchant is one of Shakespeare's "problem plays." For a comedy, it isn't very funny, and ...

As with many of his works, William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" is known not only for its literary value but for its underlying themes. In this play, those values include anti-Semitism. … ...

Though Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice was originally intended as a romantic comedy, that notion is hard to accept, given the troubling figure of Shylock. This film adaptation puts the ...

"The Merchant of Venice" is one of Shakespeare's most renowned and controversial plays, yet it hasn't been performed in San Francisco in decades, according to Custom Made Theatre's artistic ...

“The Merchant of Venice,” like “The Taming of the Shrew,” is one of the Shakespeare plays that makes modern audiences feel increasingly and understandably uncomfortable. To interpret the ...

The Merchant of Venice: Theater Review. A play that tends to chafe with modern audiences is transformed via this clear-headed reclamation into a haunting drama for our financially and morally ...

"It goes without saying that 'The Merchant of Venice' is a desperately difficult play to stage for a 21st century audience," said Joyce McMillan in The Scotsman.Torn between his desire to give all ...