From: Isaac Benabu [[log in to unmask]]

Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:05
To: Lauer, A Robert
Subject: The review on "judios y conversos"

Robert: Hope you are doing well.

It is high time that authors writing about Jews (or Christians for that matter) realize that those characters they purport to analyze are not Jews at all, but characters conceived by Christian writers representing their conception of what Jews are. This has been realized by Shakespearean scholars writing about Shylock, who is no more a Jew than Hamlet is! Characters are ideological projections, ideological that is as products of a playwright's creative imagination, and never creatures of flesh and blood.

Best, Isaac

Professor Isaac Benabu,

Depts. of English, Romance Studies & Theatre Studies,

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905

Israel

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NB de A. Robert Lauer. Gracias por tu comentario, estimado Isaac. Con tu permiso (ya otorgado) lo mando a la lista del Coloquio Teatro de los Siglos de Oro.

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