I have heard that William Shakespeare cared a lot for outsiders but in this play you have a black guy who is evil but loves his child and a father decrying his daughter's rapists...the 16th Century?
5:02-5:14 Sometimes I wonder if anyone's ever staged that line so that rather than defying those two thugs and the nurse Aaron is basically saying it to his son as if saying "You remember that anytime anyone tries to tell you differently." or "remember, never let anyone make you feel or think badly about your skin, it's beautiful"
Me to the bay: "You are the sweetest little baby in the whole wide world and your mean old mummy doesn't even like you, just because you don't look like your stupid ugly big brothers. Well we're not going to worry about them any more, they were bullies and they've been taken care of. Now no need to worry, no-one will hurt you now. Your daddy saw to that. Now when you're bigger you might hear some bad things about your daddy, and you know that they'll probably all be true. But he loved you. Never forget that he loved you."
NURSE: Tell me, did you see Aaron the Moor? AARON: Well, 'Moor' or less, a narrow wit at all. Here Aaron is. And what with Aaron now? I never caught this pun until I saw it here. It's great.
