1963

Wu, Xinghua. Weinisi shang ren [ID D24003].
Shen Fu : Wu's picture of the bourgeois Shakespearenas' view of the dramatist suggests that they wrongly see the artist as 'like the God of Creation, within or behind or above his creation'. Wu then asserts that his research proves that Shakespeare's work confirms the Marxist theory of art and literature by showing that the work is, in fact, a product of the class struggle. His analysis starts with a comparison between Shakespeare's text of The merchant of Venice and its source, the Italian Il pecorone. The noncommercial elements in the play reflect Shakespeare's bourgeois role in the class struggle. Though Wu sees Shakespeare as a bourgeois apologist, in some senses he also sees him as an artist who stood above the period.