![]() ![]() Whyman said it was an “extraordinary and beautiful love story, while forensically exposing the blithe injustice of empire”. The RSC is also staging The Empress by Tanika Gupta, which tells the story of a 16-year-old ayah (maid) to an English family over 13 years at the end of the 19th century. ![]() The Merchant of Venice 1936 opens next week at Watford Palace theatre and will tour from March, including a run at the Swan from 21 September. “One would have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to recognise that Shakespeare’s grand, equivocal comedy The Merchant of Venice is nevertheless a profoundly antisemitic work,” wrote the literary critic Harold Bloom in his 1998 book on the bard. The original play depicts Shylock as a greedy Jewish money lender who is eventually forced to convert to Christianity. Antonio, the merchant, and Portia are aristocratic Mosleyites. Tracy-Ann Oberman plays Shylock, a widowed survivor of antisemitic pogroms in Russia, who runs a pawnbroking business in Cable Street, where Oswald Moseley’s British Union of Fascists plans to march. ![]()
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