The Merchant of Venice (first published in 1600) boasts a problematic and sometimes controversial stage history. During the second world war, Hitler’s “Reichsdramaturg” Rainer Schlösser organised a ...

"It's a simple story really," said the woman in the seat in front of me. At first, I was mortified. To think The Merchant of Venice is a "simple" story was inconceivable. Looking at the premise alone: ...

John Douglas Thompson stars in Arin Arbus’s caustic and assertive new production of the Shakespeare play. By Alexis Soloski More than 30 years ago, John Douglas Thompson, then a successful salesman at ...