Beloved children's author Sir Michael Morpurgo has refused to include The Merchant of Venice in a new book retelling some of Shakespeare's most successful plays, due to its antisemitic attitudes. The ...
The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with ...
The Booker prize-winning author Howard Jacobson is to rewrite Shakespeare’s most controversial play, The Merchant of Venice, in a bid to tackle its anti-Semitism. The Jewish writer has vowed to ...