法律与跨文化交往是跨越时间的永恒命题,而莎士比亚的传世经典《威尼斯商人》对这一命题作出了形象而深刻的剖析。对夏洛克和安东尼奥的解读在谈对鲍西亚判决的看法之前,我想先谈谈自己对剧作中的两个主要人物——夏洛克和安东尼奥的认识。按照原著的描述,夏洛克是一个不被威尼斯主流社会所接受的异教徒,一个以发放高利贷为经济来源的犹太人。同名电影的开头,对16世纪末犹太人的生存现状作了这样的描述:“即使 Law and intercultural communication are the eternal propositions transcending time, and Shakespeare’s classic Venetian merchant made a vivid and profound analysis of this proposition. An Interpretation of Shylock and Antonio Before talking about the judgment of Portia, I would like to talk about my own understanding of the two main characters in the play, Shylock and Antonio. According to the original description, Sherlock is a pagan who is not accepted by the mainstream Venetian society, a Jew that uses usury as its source of income. At the beginning of the movie of the same name, a description of the living conditions of Jews at the end of the 16th century was made: ”Even if