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Originally posted by targeting
Personally my favorite is Julius Caesar. The scene where Mark Antony is speaking at Caesar's funeral is incredibly moving. Also I'm very interested in Roman history.
Originally posted by TheCommentator
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They are all way over rated if you ask me.
Wasn’t he just a mainstream pawn in a sense? Just making a product that fits to its market..
The way people talk about him reminds me of the Beatles, it’s really annoying.
I would love to see some of the non mainstream plays from that era.
Originally posted by TheCommentator
reply to post by targeting
They are all way over rated if you ask me.
Wasn’t he just a mainstream pawn in a sense? Just making a product that fits to its market..
The way people talk about him reminds me of the Beatles, it’s really annoying.
I would love to see some of the non mainstream plays from that era.
Shylock and the antisemitism debate:
The play is frequently staged today, but is potentially troubling to modern audiences due to its central themes, which can easily appear antisemitic. Critics today still continue to argue over the play's stance on antisemitism.
During Shakespeare's day, money lending was a very common occupation among Jews. This was due to Christians staying out of the profession due to their belief at that time that usury is a sin and the fact that it was one of the few professions available to Jews in medieval Europe, who were prohibited by law from most professions.
Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
—Act III, scene I