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‘Consider how a theatre-goer in Shakespeare’s day would have viewed The Merchant of Venice and contrast with a Present day opinion’.
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'Consider how a theatre-goer in Shakespeare's day would have viewed The Merchant of Venice and contrast with a Present day opinion'. The Merchant of Venice and contrasting this view with the present day opinion is quite differing as the Merchant of Venice was written about 1596 and was printed in 1600 which is along time ago and society and status of life, opinions and facilities have changed a lot. Nowadays we understand and have more information on what we are watching in a theatre and about the different cultures around us but in Shakespeare's time his knowledge of Jews would have been based on entirely on hearsay. Shakespeare's audience was also uneducated in the fact of religion and cultures therefore they would have met a Jew as they were legally banned from Britain in the fourteenth century. The only known Jew to have been living in Britain in the fourteenth century...
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