Anti Semitism at Australian universities., page-106

I should let you guys of fthe hook, because obviously neither of you have actually bothered to read the play.

Now remember Shaespeare has been recently attacked by woke so Google et al will be feeding you political correctness. To Google, everyone is intrinsically from Belmont, romantic fools and Venice is just a place where people ride around canals in canoes.

Tha play is actually a satirical comedy and it explores how the matrice variables of love, money, prejudice, reality, grace and the virtue of idealism play out. It's a study of real life ... the human stain.

Insofar as Shylock well he's the sidekick used as example of Christian arrogance towards other religions, you can translate back to the time he wrote the play and what was going on under the Tudors, including punitive censorship.