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THIS MERCHANT OF VENICE is prime evidence for the view that Shakespeare should be produced on stage as a necessary adjunct to classroom study. The text appears to be a mare's nest of incompatible themes and emotional effections, careening from Shylock's tragedy to Bassanio's comedy to Antonio's romance. But in a good production--and the Loeb mainstage production is a very good production indeed--these problems are reconciled in performance...
...Shylock, of course, presents the most difficult problems for any production. Many people continue to view The Merchant of Venice as, for all intents and purposes, unperformable after the Holocaust. At worst this view leads to the total suppression of an early Shakespeare masterpiece, at best to a crushing overemphasis on Shylock's role, so that the play becomes a one-man tragedy. Ask most people the name of the merchant of Venice, and they will answer "Shylock" more frequently than "Antonio." Antonio has not passed into the language as a generic term; "Shylock" is one of the most durable...
...Merchant of Venice. The Loeb takes on Shakespeare's not-so-funny comedy about the struggle between justice and mercy in a Venetian courtroom. Jon Epstein's performance as Shylock should be good. At the Loeb, November 13-16 and 19-22, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
...community affairs officer from MIT appeared at the hearing to warn that the schools cannot sustain a full tax burden: "Like Shylock. I say to the people here, prick us and we bleed...
...Like Shylock, I say to the people here, prick us and we bleed," said Milne, warning that the universities cannot sustain the burden of full taxation...