James Shapiro
Most educated readers are familiar with the sinister figure of Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, an anti-Semitic stereotype of the cunning, greedy, and ruthless Jewish man. But how did a stereotype like Shylock enter the literature at all, given that there were so few Jews in Shakespeare's England?
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Shakespeare and the Jews