That's common with a lot of Shakespeare. A lot of his plotlines and humour are marginal at best. If Shakespeare was alive and writing these plays today, he woul

That's common with a lot of Shakespeare. A lot of his plotlines and humour are marginal at best. If Shakespeare was alive and writing these plays today, he would be pilloried. The Merchant of Venice is blatantly anti-Semetic. The Comedy of Errors has a whole scene that's just fat shaming for no good reason. There's plenty of other examples of things that would be problematic if written in a modern context. Obviously it wasn't problematic several hundred years ago, and we shouldn't judge Shakespeare by modern standards.