The Merchant of VeniceYale University Press, 01.01.2006 - 167 Seiten In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. |
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... nature. In the process, I believe, neither lan- guage nor literature would be well or clearly served. Where it seemed useful, and not obstructive of important tex- tual matters, I have modernized spelling, including capitalization ...
... nature. In the process, I believe, neither lan- guage nor literature would be well or clearly served. Where it seemed useful, and not obstructive of important tex- tual matters, I have modernized spelling, including capitalization ...
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... nature of his profession to give us two trains of thought at the same time: the preoccupations of Antonio's mind, and the preoccupations of his business.The passage is also a bold proclamation of the poet-playwright's superb literary ...
... nature of his profession to give us two trains of thought at the same time: the preoccupations of Antonio's mind, and the preoccupations of his business.The passage is also a bold proclamation of the poet-playwright's superb literary ...
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... nature of his Jewishness is both vague and elusive . Per- haps , for our purposes , today , it ought to be considered largely symbolic . Shakespeare's compatriots did not want or need more than that . It is therefore completely ...
... nature of his Jewishness is both vague and elusive . Per- haps , for our purposes , today , it ought to be considered largely symbolic . Shakespeare's compatriots did not want or need more than that . It is therefore completely ...
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... nature of Jews and Jewishness? Of course there is—if we attempt to frame The Mer- chant of Venice as an ideological drama, even an exposition of how Shakespeare himself viewed Jews and Jewishness.The play was no more conceived in such ...
... nature of Jews and Jewishness? Of course there is—if we attempt to frame The Mer- chant of Venice as an ideological drama, even an exposition of how Shakespeare himself viewed Jews and Jewishness.The play was no more conceived in such ...
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... Nature hath framed59 strange fellows in her time . Some that will evermore peep60 through their And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper.61 58 That they'll not show their teeth in64 way of smile. And other 62 of such vinegar aspect , eyes ...
... Nature hath framed59 strange fellows in her time . Some that will evermore peep60 through their And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper.61 58 That they'll not show their teeth in64 way of smile. And other 62 of such vinegar aspect , eyes ...
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