The first play by Shakespeare I ever read.... From Wikipedia: In the 16th century, the city of Venice in Italy was one of the richest of the world. Among the wealthiest of its merchants was Antonio. Among the Christian community, he was known as a kind and generous person. Bassanio, a young Venetian...
Now that we are no longer to see the word nigger in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and I soon expect Moby Dick to turn into Moby D., I wonder how long it will take the literary gurus to change Shylock's nationality from Jewish to Italian - how about Silocchio, for instance? :)) - or never mentio...
I needed something light and amusing to dispel that horrible image of the “soft tangle of black fur on April Lindner’s version of Jane Eyre. :) Yuck! Hoping to cleanse my memory with Shakespeare, I was faced with another “hairy” image: “what a beard hast thou got! Thou hast more hair on thy chin, th...
It is William Shakespeare. Not my favorite by him..In fact I tend to remember in the class I had to read it for, this was the one I had the most difficulty with and got the lowest grade on the paper..therefore, I am not a fan of the Merchant of Venice!
About time for a comedy in my stay-at-home Shakespeare Festival. This is rather more serious than Shakespeare's other comedies, but you know it's not a tragedy because nobody dies. I've seen this play on stage two or three times and never caught how uncharitable Shakespeare really was toward Shyloc...
It's hard for the modern reader to get behind the casual antisemitism of the play. Despite the humanism of Shylock's famous speech, the end isn't kind to him.
I stumbled across some interesting background to The Merchant of Venice last month when I was reading Andrew Dickson White's comprehensive History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. From earliest times, the Christian Church had probihited usury. This was defined as "lending out ...
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