The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.2781 Friday, 7 December 2001
From: Skip Nicholson <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday 6 Dec 2001 18:12:26 -0800
Subject: R&G
We have students asking (1) if Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are intended
to be Jewish and (2) if Shakespeare uses them to exploit the
anti-Semitism that seems to have been the norm in early modern England.
My answer, as it often is, is "I don't know." Can anyone help?
Cheers,
Skip Nicholson
South Pasadena (CA) HS
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