The Merchant of Venice review " a barometer for the anxieties of the times
Lincoln Center festival, New YorkThough the production is traditional, with Jonathan Pryce as Shylock leading the cast, it has truths to impart about modern hatred, violence and prejudiceSo accustomed have we become to modern reinterpretations of Shakespeare " Julius Caesar set in a women's prison, Macbeth as a chef, Hamlet as a hipster " that it feels like something of a novelty to see an old school production with …