{"id":2997,"date":"2010-11-22T10:04:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T14:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:09:43","slug":"edelstein-on-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2010\/11\/22\/edelstein-on-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Edelstein on Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons why I love working at Weinberg Library is because it gives me the opportunity to hear some of the great speakers the University attracts.  On Wednesday, November 17th, Barry Edelstein spoke about his Broadway production of Shakespeare\u2019s The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino as Shylock.  Edelstein discussed whether or not the play is antisemitic.  He claimed that it depends on the context and the interpreter; and he highly recommended two books which are in the Weinberg Library collection:  <em>Shakespeare and the Jews<\/em> by James Shapiro (PR2825 .S44 1996) and John Gross\u2019  <em>Shylock : a legend and its legacy<\/em> (PR2825 .G76 1992) .  His hopeful conclusion was that time passes, and that human society grows, \u201cwe know what hatred costs and we can put an end to it\u201d, and \u201chatred destroys; staging it-heals.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons why I love working at Weinberg Library is because it gives me the opportunity to hear some of the great speakers the University attracts. On Wednesday, November 17th, Barry Edelstein spoke about his Broadway production of Shakespeare\u2019s The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino as Shylock. Edelstein discussed whether or not [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6128,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/6128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}