[CharlesOConnell]

Among the stupidities is the fact that all Jews had been expelled from England 200 years before Shakespeare. He may have been using their figure to represent the forces of Puritanism, using a politically safe, neutral image.

[canuck_conservative]

the fact that all Jews had been expelled from England 200 years before Shakespeare

Not true, England was one of the few countries in Europe where Jews remained free thru the Middle Ages