Greatest mistakes of Shakespeare in Merchant of Venice .
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Shakespeare showed the Christian's in greater colour . Antonio always humiliated shylock in the worst way possible. This was held responsible for shylock's disgust on him . It is true that shylock wanted to take the revenge in a most heinous sort of way , but Antonio's fault was no less . In the end Shylock was punished very severely (he was also ordered to change to christianity , the religion he so hated ) whereas Antonio being a Christian walked free and gay . This racism showed by Shakespeare is one of his greatest mistakes .
Shakespeare's writing served many masters. Clarity was not always one of them.
First, some caveats. We cannot always be certain we have authentic Shakespearean texts. The texts that have come down to us were generated from a variety of sources, often cobbled together from actors' prodigious, yet fallible, memories. They have since been emended by editors trying to ascertain the original text as best they can. We'll never be sure exactly what Shakespeare wrote.
Stage directions in particular are of dubious origin. So I don't know exactly who wrote "Enter Will Kemp" instead of "Enter Peter" in the Second Quarto of Romeo and Juliet, but it's an interestingly revealing mistake. Will Kemp was the name of the actor who certainly originated the role; we have numerous lines of evidence for that but rarely do we get such direct evidence.
While I'm on the subject of R&J, a totally different kind of "mistake": the death of Paris. It's hard to say just what purpose the death of Paris serves. It's unjust. Paris wasn't some evil, lecherous old man being sprung on the innocent Juliet. He's there, in the tomb, mourning Juliet. Romeo looks to me more like a murderer than a grief-stricken lover at that moment.