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Context . Merchant of Venice. Pre-knowledge. Userer – a person who lends money at unreasonable high rates of interest Antisemitism – hostility to or prejudice against J ews Jews are hated Currently, we generally feel sympathy for J ew s because of holocaust . Setting . Italian

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  1. Context Merchant of Venice

  2. Pre-knowledge • Userer – a person who lends money at unreasonable high rates of interest • Antisemitism – hostility to or prejudice against Jews • Jews are hated • Currently, we generally feel sympathy for Jews because of holocaust

  3. Setting • Italian • Marriage plot • Jews in Shakespeare England were a marginalized group (Jews are villains and objects of mockery) • Sixteenth-century 1596

  4. Place • Venice • Venice is shown to be a world of commerce and law where businessmen live, full of sad and unhappy people https://sg.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090909021426AAJye3j • Creates Jews as a scapegoat of Christendom & the usurer as a scapegoat of capitalism.

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