Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . View from the Commercial College Rooms 118 OHIO UNIVERSITY BULLETIX highest spiritual significance by the under-lying religious element These two , are interwoven in the subtlest man-ner; still, an analysis has to tear them asundertemporarily. In the first thread the antago-nists are Antonio, the Christian, and Jew. * * The second thread unfoldsthe Love-conflict, which has here three phases,represented by Portia. Jessica, and second movement—the Mediation—hasthe same two threads. * * the third move-ment will
Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . View from the Commercial College Rooms 118 OHIO UNIVERSITY BULLETIX highest spiritual significance by the under-lying religious element These two , are interwoven in the subtlest man-ner; still, an analysis has to tear them asundertemporarily. In the first thread the antago-nists are Antonio, the Christian, and Jew. * * The second thread unfoldsthe Love-conflict, which has here three phases,represented by Portia. Jessica, and second movement—the Mediation—hasthe same two threads. * * the third move-ment will be the Athens County Court House This extract is typical of about eighteenhundred pages of criticism in three volumesby a critic of Shakspere. Much of this criti-cism is helpful and stimulating. But whyshould common-sense be overlaid with thepedantry of a cumbersome terminology- Itis almost burlesque. This is German criticismwith a vengeance. Gervinus tells us thatShaksperes purpose in The Merchant is todelineate man in his relation to properly. But Ulrici objects., and informs us that thefundamental unity lies in the principle, Sum-mum jus summa injuria; and Rotscher goeshim one better by declaring the topic ofthe play to be the dialectics of abstractrights. Well, well, well! How much theunsophisticated spectator in the theater haslost by his not knowing that before his eyeswas enacted the drama of the dialectics ofabstract rights! For my part I prefer tosee in the pla}r what the common people seethere—the story of a vindictive Jew whosepassion of hatred is thwarted by the noblerpassion o
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