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Sunday, February 1 • 11:00am - 12:00pm
Shylock: Shakespeare and the 'Jewish Problem'
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Given the fact that there were no Jews in Elizabethan England, is it possible to charge Shakespeare with anti-Semitism? If not, why did he choose to depict his money-lending usurer as a Jew when so many of his contemporary Christian Englishmen were practising a trade forbidden by the scriptures? And if so, why he provide Shylock with such emotionally defensive speeches?
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Errol Durbach

Errol Durbach is a retired Professor of Theatre at the University of British Columbia. He is an active member of various Theatre Boards in Vancouver, and has many of his translation and adaptations of plays performed in the city.

Sunday February 1, 2015 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
Room 1 Eric Hamber Secondary School
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