humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 6, 11:34 pm, Art Neuendorffer
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> This week, a new group joined the Shakespearean fray: nine teenage
> girls from a state-run Jewish school in London, who protested
> Shakespeare's alleged anti-Semitism in "The Merchant of Venice" by
> refusing to answer questions in a national curriculum exam. The girls,
> students at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School, an Orthodox
> institution with 249 pupils, were supposed to answer questions about
> "The Tempest," which they had studied earlier in the semester. But
> they decided to make a stand and instigated a boycott against the
> Bard, despite the fact that the offending work - "The Merchant of
> Venice" - was not part of the curriculum and was not part of the exam.
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> Art Neuendorffer

Art, your style is getting closer and closer to Lyra's.