Comments on: ‘A Pound of Flesh’, Meaning & Context https://nosweatshakespeare.com <strong><a href="/">Modern Shakespeare</a></strong> resources, <strong><a href="/sonnets/">sonnet translations</a></strong> & lots more! Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jared https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/pound-of-flesh/comment-page-1/#comment-3006196 Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:00:03 +0000 https://nosweatshakespeare.com/?page_id=1021650#comment-3006196 In reply to Stan.

If anything I would say it’s caution to any who would make an arrangement without checking if the tender is good. And shows the duplicity of the Christian’s to say such hypocrisy but it is their home court advantage. Also worth noting that Jews were predominantly the majority of money lenders because their faith permitted it where as Christians were severely discouraged (some punished) for lending money with interest. The view was that no one but God can profit from time. The Christian church of course changed their view on it in time and enforced a maximum amount of interest that could be applied. The Jewish faith had no such hindrances and so through interest on loans gained animosity of the borrowers for it.

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By: Stan https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/pound-of-flesh/comment-page-1/#comment-3001196 Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:24:22 +0000 https://nosweatshakespeare.com/?page_id=1021650#comment-3001196 So the Shylock:

– never gets his money back that he legitimately lent out
– gets all his other possessions stolen
– is forced to convert to Christianity

and that is somehow not anti-semitic? please…

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