The Merchant of Venice be a "happy ending" for the character, as, to a Christian audience, it saves his soul and allows him to enter Heaven. Regardless of what Shakespeare's authorial intent may have been, the play has been made use of by antisemites throughout the play's history. The Nazis used the usurious Shylock for their propaganda. Shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938, "The Merchant of Venice" was broadcast for propagandistic ends over the German airwaves. Productions of the play followed in Lübeck (1938), Berlin (1940), and elsewhere within the Nazi territory. In a series of articles called "Observer", first published in 1785, British playwright
S. S. Krishnamoorthy S. S. Krishnamoorthy Agri S. S. Krishnamoorthy is an Indian politician and was a member of the 14th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Kalasapakkam constituency. As a representative of the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, he was previously elected to the same constituency in the 2006 elections. The elections of 2016 resulted in his constituency being won by V. Panneerselvam. Born in an agricultural family of Elathur village in the present Kalasapakkam taluk of Tiruvannamalai district on 26 September 1959. Father S. Sundaresan and Mother Jagadambal. Married to Vijayakumari and is father of three children. He served as Chairman of Kalasapakkam