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Globe's marvelous Merchant for 21st century audiences (review)

by Christopher Henley

Shakespeare's Globe has brought a wonderful The Merchant of Venice to The Kennedy Center for an unfortunately too-brief stay. Jonathan Munby's production is powerful, smart, handsome, melodious, and quite funny. Shakespeare's play has often occasioned controversy, as people have argued the extent to which it reflected the odious anti-semitism of Elizabethan England, or subverted that […] The post Globe’s …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 2:46pm on July 28, 2016