Now I want an icon of Kit Marlowe saying "The David Fury of Elizabethan Drama". Because it's true.
Re: Jew of Malta, yeah, read it during my class on Merchant, and it's not the production - everyone is. Doesn't mean he didn't still happily go for the stereotype.
Here's a thought: Barrabas in Jew of Malta isn't so much related to Shylock as he is to Aaron in Titus Andronicus, though Aaron at least is presented as capable of love (his child) in addition to being an evil plotting black man. Though even young Will couldn't write racist clichés without adding at least a bit of humanity?
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Date: 2006-10-22 05:13 pm (UTC)Re: Jew of Malta, yeah, read it during my class on Merchant, and it's not the production - everyone is. Doesn't mean he didn't still happily go for the stereotype.
Here's a thought: Barrabas in Jew of Malta isn't so much related to Shylock as he is to Aaron in Titus Andronicus, though Aaron at least is presented as capable of love (his child) in addition to being an evil plotting black man. Though even young Will couldn't write racist clichés without adding at least a bit of humanity?