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A Propeller production , Oxford Playhouse 16th – 20th June
Review by Jackie Keirs

‘If you deny me, fie upon your law!
There is no force in the decrees of Venice.’

So says Shylock as he argues his case for a pound of the Merchant’s flesh, Antonio finding himself unable to return the Jew’s loan of three thousand ducats. Isn’t it interesting that Shylock’s chastisement of the law should have such immediate resonance for today’s audiences, at a time when we surely have as much right as he did to criticise the law and the upholding of the law on the part of our own law-makers(?) (more…)

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