SHAKSPER 1998: Re: Anti-Semitism

From: Hardy M. Cook (editor@ws.bowiestate.edu)
Date: 03/24/98 

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 9.0250  Tuesday, 24 March 1998.

From:           Kristine Batey <kbatey@nwu.edu>
Date:           Monday, 23 Mar 1998 14:21:09 -0600
Subject:        Anti-Semitism

Ira Abrams wrote:

> it is clear that Shakespeare
>could imagine villains who were not Jews-just as he could imagine Jews
>who were not villains (i.e., Jessica).

Jessica-who proves she's really a good egg by converting to
Christianity.  And sitting with her new Christian friends, laughing at
and making fun of the father who loves her.

Kristine Batey
kbatey@nwu.edu


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