Jonathan Freedland: Shakespeare's Anti-Semitic 'Merchant'
Jonathan Freedland of Britain's The Guardian newspaper offers his opinion of the new film adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino as a long-suffering Jewish moneylender seeking revenge -- and a pound of flesh -- from a rich Christian merchant played by Jeremy Irons. Freedland says the film fails to overcome the play's anti-Semitic undercurrents.
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