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I think you mean "forced conversion", the idea that Shylock had to convert from Judaism to Christianity or die. The audience of Shakespeare's day would probably think that this was a good idea. Remember, this was a time in England when you not only had to belong to the Church of England, but had to attend regular services on pain of criminal prosecution. Shakespeare's father and daughter both had to pay fines for this offence. For the Elizabethans and Jacobeans, religion had everything to do with outward behaviour and nothing to do with internal conviction, so forced conversions were, as far as they were concerned, effective.

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