How anti-Semitic is the Merchant of Venice?

Shakespeare & The Jews - Dr. Sophie Duncan
Research fellow and dean for welfare, Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Academic interests: Early Modern, Victorian and contemporary drama, William Shakespeare
Historical advisor, theatre, radio, and television, BBC, Kiln Theatre, New Vic, Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company
Author of:
Shakespeare’s Women and the Fin de Siècle
Shakespeare’s Props: Memory and Cognition
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine
How anti-Semitic is the Merchant of Venice?
If you liked the content of this video please subscribe and hit the bell notification button. bit.ly/3oURYsp
Like, share and comment on the video.
▼Follow me on social media▼
Facebook: bit.ly/2XBF2eX
Instagram / sparksofhis. .
website: www.sparksofhi...
You may also be interested in:
Why Was Washington's Visit To The Touro Synagogue Special? • Why Was Washington's V...
You are watching, How anti-Semitic is the Merchant of Venice?@ • How anti-Semitic is th...

[@smeegy1]

I never considered the play anti semitic. Shylocks “do I not also bleed”speech shows that Jews are the same as us.

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

hate😥😥😥😥