Language:
English
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Persistent Prejudice
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1988) 99-105
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William,
;
Antisemitism in literature
Abstract:
Approaches to "The Merchant of Venice" which portray Shylock as a heroic victim of bigotry are a modern imposition on the play. Shylock was "created by an anti-Semite, and he expresses and promotes a set of bigoted, ignorant and stupid prejudices against Jews". At the same time, he is one of the earliest and still the greatest literary portrayal of a Jew as a human being, the insight from which all arguments against antisemitism must proceed.
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