
Paul Cantor: Shakespeare and Politics
Conversations with Bill Kristol
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Is There a Link Between Christianity and Jewish Conversion?
There were no jews in england than i guess. It's been estimated there may have been as many as ten thousand obsevs, because they were nominally illegal. Elizabeth had a commercial treaty with the ottoman sultan. There were certainly people suspected of being jewish at the time. And i'm convinced that shakespeare, travelling in the circles he did, namely theatr would have met a lot of jews. If there were jews in london, they were going to the theatre, come on. Let's face it, addy was interested in the relation judaism to christianity,. though i guess he doesn't really address that in great
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