tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16218624.post2840220589068021835..comments2023-11-03T05:27:32.648-04:00Comments on Xibalba: xibalbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224952131898257723noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16218624.post-56144110554756965102016-05-15T20:39:40.631-04:002016-05-15T20:39:40.631-04:00Please make that play!Please make that play!Politicsgirl101https://www.blogger.com/profile/18167914397913906750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16218624.post-66893298955821377952016-05-13T21:49:37.325-04:002016-05-13T21:49:37.325-04:00About the whole set up thing, well that makes it e...About the whole set up thing, well that makes it even worse!Politicsgirl101https://www.blogger.com/profile/18167914397913906750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16218624.post-73966135987619281552016-05-13T21:14:32.721-04:002016-05-13T21:14:32.721-04:00I felt it was pro Jewish actually. The Christians ...I felt it was pro Jewish actually. The Christians are so unlikable that I feel like he was trying to be subversive!Politicsgirl101https://www.blogger.com/profile/18167914397913906750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16218624.post-35270735455444230302011-10-30T23:16:03.332-04:002011-10-30T23:16:03.332-04:00Thanks for the comment and the link. I will check ...Thanks for the comment and the link. I will check it out. <br /><br />I am constantly amazed at people who do not accept the anti-Jewish nature of this play. To me it is so obvious. In fact I did the rather tedious counting of terms used to describe Shylock to counter a friends belief that the play was not anti-Jewish and Shylock's Jewishness incidential.<br /><br />Those critics who constantly complain that we don't understand the play properly when we turn Shylock into a sort of sympathetic character sort of miss what the play means if understood properly and you would have to be sort of a bad person to accept this meaning without finding it disturbing and upsetting.<br /><br />Oh and I agree that Shakespeare did like playing with the plots and words of his play to subvert the overt in his plays.xibalbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00224952131898257723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16218624.post-53231251956112445372011-10-27T19:12:31.600-04:002011-10-27T19:12:31.600-04:00Interesting analysis! I agree that the play is def...Interesting analysis! I agree that the play is definitely anti-Jewish, and that Shakespeare was slightly subversive about the whole thing, as lines like<br /><br />Thou call'dst me dog before thou have a cause,<br />But since I am a dog, beware my fangs<br /><br />suggest.<br /><br />I like this analysis of the play I've found on the 'net:<br /><br />http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lady/lit/shakespeare/Shylock1.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com