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Miriam Shaviv

Opinion

Too Jewish for Shakespeare?

September 2, 2009 14:31
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Comedian Jonah Hill, currently starring in Funny People with Adam Sandler, says he's "too Jewish for Shakespeare".

This might come as something of a disappointment to all those conspiracy theorists out there who believe that Shakespeare was really a Jewish woman.

In the meanwhile, how about Merchant of Venice? It was, after all, first classified as a comedy...

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