Posted by Jo on April 06, 1998 at 17:47:10:

In Reply to: Re: Why shouldn't The Merchant of Venice be ban from school. posted by Barry Pineo on March 27, 1998 at 09:10:48:

: While I would say that reading books such as
: _ Lunch_ or __ would probably not be
: entirely appropriate for high school reading (and
: I'm uming that's what we're talking about
: here), I really cannot imagine why any play by
: Shakespeare should be banned in any high school.
: While Shylock is certanly the villain in the play,
: and more than a bit of anti-Semitism may be read
: into that choice, the Christians in the play do
: not make out much better than the Jew. If
: anything, I have always seen Shylock as a somewhat
: sympathetic figure. While his insistence on his
: pound of flesh is reprehensible, his wrongs at
: the hands of the Christians are all too real.
: Should we ban _Othello_ because the antagonist
: is a white man? Or _Hamlet_? Or _Julius Caesar_?
: Once you ban one, where does it end?

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