[Diana in Wisconsin]

I'm going to APT to see this in August. I can't wait! I am absolutely SMITTEN with Jim De Vita. He is awesome in any role he chooses.

But what a stretch this reviewer is making! Can't works of art be judged on their merits and their time in HISTORY? Must EVERYTHING be re-written to fit the PC mold of today? Yeesh!

It's a STORY. Enjoy it. Learn from it.

With this dopes logic, we'd better not EVER watch "Gone With The Wind" again...there were slaves in it! And what about the Wiccan Witches Union? Guess we'd better ban "The Wizard of Oz" while we're at it...it portrays witches as evil! *ROLLEYES*

[Sherman Logan]

Guess we'd better ban "The Wizard of Oz" while we're at it...it portrays witches as evil! *ROLLEYES*

Not really. It has two evil witches, one of whom is seen only as a pair of shriveling feet, and one good witch.

Looks like a balanced portrayal to me.

[Mad_as_heck]

I think a case can be made that the portrayal of Jews in the Merchant of Venice is actually very open-minded and "progressive" for an era as deeply anti-Jewish as Elizabethan England.

Its very hard to imagine a Nazi or Muslim play with a Jewish villain that would let Shylock deliver the wonderful soliloquy in which he asserts his humanity. "If you prick me, will I not bleed?"

I have a little bit of Jewish ancestry and I don't think Shakespeare was an antisemitic, not any more than his age anyway.

[SunkenCiv]

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