“When Literature Apologizes to Reality: Shakespeare Reconsiders Shylock in the Age of Modern Power”
Text: "A Statement of Apology penned by the global literary figure William Shakespeare to his famed character Shylock from (The Merchant of Venice), which was published by all British newspapers and broadcast on global television networks yesterday: 'My Dear and Respectable Moneylender Shylock, Greetings to your esteemed person. I present to you my most sincere apologies for distorting your image over the past centuries before millions of readers worldwide, for making you an example of humanity's bloodsuckers and flesh-gnawers, and for portraying you with the ugliest traits of greed, exploitation, dead conscience, the basest human meanings, absence of mercy, cruelty, and a corrupt, debased soul sinking into an abyss with no bottom. However, after hundreds of years, I discovered how mistaken I was in your right after witnessing what the Egyptian government is doing to its people. Its people have become like an animal suspended in a slaughterhouse, where the government cuts ...