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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... true that, to a very considerable extent, punctuation tends to result from just how the mind responsible for that punctuating hears the text. And twenty-first-century minds have no business, in such mat- ters, overruling seventeenth ...
... true that, to a very considerable extent, punctuation tends to result from just how the mind responsible for that punctuating hears the text. And twenty-first-century minds have no business, in such mat- ters, overruling seventeenth ...
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... true extent of his knowledge. He must have en- joyed success, or he would hardly have worked so intensely at achieving it. He used his money to buy land, and to purchase a coat of arms. But who does not enjoy success? Who in a land ...
... true extent of his knowledge. He must have en- joyed success, or he would hardly have worked so intensely at achieving it. He used his money to buy land, and to purchase a coat of arms. But who does not enjoy success? Who in a land ...
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... true role and importance of their stated religious identity ? How much are either Jews or Ju- daism the play's concerns ? The Merchant of Venice is dramatic fiction , and fiction is by def- inition pretense : the writer tries ( and ...
... true role and importance of their stated religious identity ? How much are either Jews or Ju- daism the play's concerns ? The Merchant of Venice is dramatic fiction , and fiction is by def- inition pretense : the writer tries ( and ...
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... true piety in it , and nothing to hold him back as he pursues his revenge . . ” 12 We can no more go to The Merchant of Venice for perspectives on , or information about Jews and Ju- daism , than we can go Hamlet for guidance on ...
... true piety in it , and nothing to hold him back as he pursues his revenge . . ” 12 We can no more go to The Merchant of Venice for perspectives on , or information about Jews and Ju- daism , than we can go Hamlet for guidance on ...
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... true, / Until confirmed, signed, ratified by you” (148–149). Portia speaks with a wisdom ripening right before our eyes: You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand, Such as I am.Though for myself alone I would not be ambitious in my wish ...
... true, / Until confirmed, signed, ratified by you” (148–149). Portia speaks with a wisdom ripening right before our eyes: You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand, Such as I am.Though for myself alone I would not be ambitious in my wish ...
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