@Bbmorg@DaveGraham1975 For myself, I would hope that the boy saying he was stabbed and couldn’t breathe would carry equal weight with the coppers as someone saying the boy made a racist comment.
@Bbmorg So, in other words, they just let the bloke die without checking to see if he really were stabbed just because he was accused of racism and if one is accused of racism he/she had to lie about being stabbed?? Is that about right?
Was Shakespeare trying to make an audience be sympathetic to Shylock?
Do you feel that of all English playwrights, Shakespeare’s plays have the most relevance for our 2026 world? And if so, why?
And finally, considering the soliloquy from Macbeth (“….it is a tale told by an idiot….”). Do you think Shakespeare was a religious man?