Word: shylocking
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...Uncle Sam or Uncle Shylock" is the topic to be discussed at the second meeting of the Harvard Forum tonight at 8 o'clock in Emerson...
...this not like Hitler's book-burnings ? If Chaucer must be banned because he tells us that medieval Jews were usurers (a profession forbidden to medieval Christians by their popes, and to medieval and modern Moslems by their Koran), what of Shakespeare with his Shylock, and Dickens with his Fagin; what of the Bible (I Thessalonians, II, 14-16); what of the Koran; what of the Arabian Nights, where a Jew is said to have cheated an orphan (Aladdin) and his widowed mother of the true price of a table service brought them by a jinn...
...terms sent to London were harsh enough to revive the old Uncle Shylock...
...Southern American Negro" was Frederick Ira Aldridge, the date 1826. Among his Desdemonas: Ellen Tree, whose husband, famed Charles Kean, played Iago. In Europe's capital Actor Aldridge also played other Shalespearean roles (e.g., Lear, Shylock, Macbeth.) He married a Swedish baroness (by whom he had three children), died as he was about to return to America to set the record that had to wait 76 years for Paul Robeson...
...Carradine (Grapes of Wrath, Reunion in France) "dress rehearsed" Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, at Pasadena's famed Playhouse, a Shakespeare stronghold that has produced all 37 of the Bard's plays. Carradine's productions were thoughtful rather than exciting, shunned novelty and sensationalism: as Shylock, for example, Carradine refused to point up the racial issue. But, despite gas rationing, Carradine's three-week run broke all Playhouse records for Shakespeare, turned away 250 people a week...