Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 90. Thursday, 18 February 1993.
(1) From: Piers Lewis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 17 Feb 1993 08:56 CST
Subj: Re: SHK 4.0084 Re:Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism
(2) From: Kevin Berland <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 17 Feb 93 16:44 EST
Subj: Re: SHK 4.0083 Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism
(3) From: Robert F. O'Connor <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 18 Feb 1993 09:19:16 +1000
Subj: Re: SHK 4.0085 Re: HyperCard Shakespeare
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From: Piers Lewis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 17 Feb 1993 08:56 CST
Subject: 4.0084 Re:Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism
Comment: Re: SHK 4.0084 Re:Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism
So, is it now a truth universally acknowledged that a single Jewish
moneylender in pursuit of a monstrous revenge proves Shakespeare to be
antisemitic? Since when does a single instance prove any general truth?
Shakespeare's imaginary garden has a real toad in it, and a poisonous toad at
that whose name is 'money.' Instead of relishing the fact, we turn it into
political allegory--as with everything else that makes us uneasy.
Piers Lewis
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From: Kevin Berland <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 17 Feb 93 16:44 EST
Subject: 4.0083 Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism
Comment: Re: SHK 4.0083 Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism
When Jonathan Miller visited us at McMaster (where he was doing something
medical over at the hospital), he talked about Olivier showing up already
costumed and made up -- huge putty hooked nose, yellowish skin, ghetto
clothing -- and, Miller said, he knew it would be hard to talk him out of
all the traditional Jew-trappings, but he had to do something, or his
(Miller's) ancestors would spin in their graves...
Historically speaking, it would have been difficult (or impossible) for
Shakespeare *not* to have been antisemitic. Of course it's different
now...
Kevin Berland
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From: Robert F. O'Connor <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 18 Feb 1993 09:19:16 +1000
Subject: 4.0085 Re: HyperCard Shakespeare
Comment: Re: SHK 4.0085 Re: HyperCard Shakespeare
In response to Tad Davis: it is possible to 'tag' the Hypercard texts, to
leave notes or even bookmarks (at which the text will automatically open
next time) - I have already profusely 'scribbled' over a text of Macbeth
and this has been extraordinarily useful, especially in pulling blocks of
text out of the play for inclusion in other stuff.
ROC