Shylock, the lender, gives a loan to Antonio, the Venetian merchant, stipulating in the contract: if he does not receive the loan on time, he will cut a pound of flesh from Antonio's body. Is Shakespeare's world-famous play, The Merchant of Venice, which has been performed around the world for centuries, anti-Semitic? Or is comedy merely suitable for amplifying existing prejudices? Could the playwright have known Jews at all, while they had already been expelled from England at that time 300 years ago?

The ghost of William Shakespeare appeared at Spinoza Theater in Budapest for this performance and the play's writer Gábor Lackó makes a witty proposal to the English playwright on how the two of them should rewrite the work together in order to rid The Merchant of Venice of the accusation of anti-Semitism - perhaps due to a misunderstanding.

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