Like “The Taming of the Shrew,” which goes rather hard with Kate before she is brought, shall we say, to heel, “The Merchant of Venice” is a play of great brilliance and potency that endures with modern audiences despite displays of prejudice, subjugation and outright abuse that fly in the face of Western ethos.
I doubt that anyone who sees the brutally frank Shakespeare’s Globe production now running at Chicago Shakespeare Theater will come away laughing. In a tradition dating back to Shakespeare’s own time, “The Merchant of Venice,” which frames bitter hatred between Christians and Jews in a metropolis of a distant era, has been labeled as comedy. Review: “The Merchant of Venice,” presented by Shakespeare’s Globe at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, through Aug.
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