>hook nosed usurer kind of jew says he hates Antonio because he is a Christian and that he lends money free of interest>He want to kill him for this>He cries out in pain(about being discriminated) as he strikes you(while demanding the life of antonio)What Did Shakespeare mean by this?
>>18666236Same thing happened when Flaccus got Jews kicked out of Alexandria, and was also recalled, exiled, executed. The Jews fled Alexandria (which it was a sin in the first place really to go live there in Egypt anyway), because they were kicked out for living tax free. When they got to Israel, they found christians. So they stoned Stephen to death when they found that he was a Christian in Israel because they had just been persecuted and killed in Alexandria. Shakespeare might have had an educated awareness to Jews, but since he wrote tragedies like Romeo and Juliette, I never liked him beyond his writing skill.
