Trying to fix what Shakespeare got wrong
To say that playwright Sarah Mantell is no fan of 'The Merchant of Venice' would be several thousand ducats' worth of understatement.
'It's a really deeply antisemitic play. It's a really sexist play. It's a really racist, anti-Black play,' the New York City-based writer says. A memorable glimpse of the work at the Yale School of Drama left Mantell 'extremely disturbed and upset' and with a self-imposed mandate: 'Shakespeare didn't know what he was doing, and I need to fix it for him.'
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