Our Muddy Vesture
Frank Kermode: Pacino’s Merchant of Venice, 6 January 2005
“... Here is one clear reason Jews hate Christians and Christians despise Jews. There are others. Radford’s movie begins with an anti-Jewish riot, foregrounding the topic of a more general anti-semitism, not so expressed in the play, rather than usury. In fact it is quite a time before anything happens that originates in the play itself. Shakespeare ... ”