Al Pacino, Lily Rabe Stunningly Good In 'merchant'

NEW YORK — Though he appears in only a handful of scenes, Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" is perhaps William Shakespeare's most thorny character. Al Pacino plunges into that fraught thicket on Broadway and emerges bloody, but undefeated.Pacino manages to play the anti-Semitic characteristics of the hated Jewish money-lender without inhibition, and yet also communicate the burning anger welling up as the result of a lifetime of Christian contempt.Read More... More on New York Culture

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