𝐸𝓇𝒾𝒸𝒶𝑅𝑒𝓃𝑒—𝒫𝓇𝒾𝒸𝑒

I prefer Hamlet.
"You had me at Elk Tartare"
-Erin Wotherspoon

stfu
Shema Yisrael!!!!!!!!!!

damn your ugly. eeww!

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.
(Antonio, Act 1 Scene 1)

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I could explain the debate, but work begins in eight minutes and I'm far too tired. This article will do a better job regardless:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-scholars-still-debate-whether-or-not-shakespeares-merchant-venice-anti-semitic-180958867/
Hark! Harold the angel sings.

How was it progressive in that time period? Care to elaborate tomorrow? Amen and God bless.

Surprisingly "progressive" for its time whilst also being horrendously anti-Semitic and not progressive at all.
Hark! Harold the angel sings.

Don't call me that!
Shema Yisrael!!!!!!!!!!

Lol. Eggie

Ya know what, THANK you Eggie. Its about time w had some classy topics here.
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I saw it on Broadway as part of my high school Shakespeare class. Dustin Hoffman was Shylock. Excellent

Shylock that ****!
Hrabak is nothing but an incestuous, shit eating goat fucking jew.

Enter BASSANIO and SHYLOCK
SHYLOCK
Three thousand ducats; well.
BASSANIO
Ay, sir, for three months.
SHYLOCK
For three months; well.
BASSANIO
For the which, as I told you, Antonio shall be bound.
SHYLOCK
Antonio shall become bound; well.
BASSANIO
May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I
know your answer?
SHYLOCK
Three thousand ducats for three months and Antonio bound.
Me with my backpack in zeldan paradises

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withnail_and_I
Robinson's script is largely autobiographical. "Marwood" is Robinson; "Withnail" is based on Vivian MacKerrell, a friend with whom he shared a Camden house, and "Uncle Monty" is loosely based on Franco Zeffirelli, from whom Robinson received unwanted amorous attentions when he was a young actor.
Early in the film, Withnail reads a newspaper headline "Boy Lands Plum Role for Top Italian Director" and suggests that the director is sexually abusing the boy. This is a reference to the sexual harassment that Robinson alleges he suffered at the hands of Zeffirelli when, at age 21, he won the role of Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet. Robinson attributed Uncle Monty's question to Marwood ("Are you a sponge or a stone?") as a direct quote from Zeffereli.

And then there’s the death by poodle pie scene.

They used to make such R rated movies and they were shown in all world theaters. These days the PG crowd would force such movies off theaters for being too gory.

the thread started antisemitic now we're moving in the right direction. Thank you stammaman.

I thought it started out as a Shakespeare themed thread.

Those were moral and christian times.
Since this thread has become a kind of a Shakespeare themed thread:

I forgot about Playboy making it. That explains the nudity.
Jon Finch was a star for a bit of time during the 1970s but ended up in supporting roles. My favourite oddity from his credits is The Final Programme (known in the US as The Last Days of Man on Earth).

Polanski’s version was more fun. It was shorter than the play, upped the violence, threw in some gratuitous nudity and featured a young actor who went on to become an annoying children’s TV personality. I watched it at school and we cheered when his character was murdered.