humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 20, 11:25=A0am, Elizabeth wrote:
> On Mar 20, 8:21 am, Art Neuendorffer
> wrote:

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> > Elizabeth wrote:
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> If Oxford wrote the racist Merchant of Venice it is a
> cause of the Holocaust. =A0If Francis, Lord Verulam
> wrote Merchant it is a satire on 'trading places.'
>
> A Puritan Calvinist Englishman thinks he's an ancient
> Hebrew (per the Calvinist Judiaizing movement in
> England) while a Venetian usurer lives like an upper
> class Englishman.
>
> Shylock lives in a palace on the Strand, he collects
> fine art, he dresses like a courtier.
>
> His daughter IS English. =A0She was born on English soil
> (Bacon would like to see her naturalized by law) and
> she has no problem marrying 'another Anglican' since
> all the English, even Jews, were then enrolled in
> the Church of England.
>
> It's a farce on the hypocrisy of the system, Art but
> because it has the WRONG AUTHOR it gets a
> WRONG READING per Foucault's warning about
> AUTHORLESS BOOKS.
>
> Yes, I do think this wrong reading of Merchant
> contributed to the antisemitism in post-WWII
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s.b. 'pre-WWII Germany.'
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> Germany. =A0The Germans read Shakespeare with
> awe and resentment.

> Is Merchant going to get a corrected reading
> through a FEUDAL EARL? =A0No. =A0It will be far
> worse than what the Strats gave it.
>
> Stop posting crap and start reading, Art.