 | Victor L Cahn - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 865 pages
...tone of the speech changes towards the end, and the seemingly humanistic spirit turns venomous: And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like...it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. (Ill, i, 66-73) Shylock now sounds more vicious than anyone in the play. A spirit of vengeance has... | |
 | Nancy Carrick, Lawrence Finsen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 306 pages
...bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we...Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufference be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Kenneth Orne Myrick - Drama - 1998 - 188 pages
...to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer that a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?...shall go hard but I will better the instruction." The whole of the trial scene, both before and after the entrance of Portia, is a masterpiece of dramatic... | |
 | Jonathan Gil Harris - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 197 pages
...reconfigured in much twentieth-century criticism as an "irresistible" plea for Jews' common humanity: "If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance...it shall go hard but I will better the instruction" (3.1.67-9). Shylock's assertion of similarity, far from humanizing him, demands to be seen as a threat... | |
 | Ritchie Robertson - Literary Collections - 1999 - 382 pages
...gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies. And what's the reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not...it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. No, Shylock does love money, but there are things he loves much more, including his daughter, 'Jessica,... | |
 | Walter Everett - Music - 1999 - 395 pages
...same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? — if you prick...shall go hard but I will -better the instruction. [The Merchant of Venice, III, i] That is, for present purposes: My body, and its fates, the visible... | |
 | Jonneke Bekkenkamp - Art - 2000 - 198 pages
...he manages to unravel the opposition between Jews and Christians in the course of just a few lines: I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands,...it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. (III.i.52-66) Nothing could express more plainly how Shylock's role has been forced on him, and how,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 103 pages
An annotated edition of Shakespeare's black comedy about young lovers and a very demanding money lender; also includes essays on Shakespeare's theatrical world and his texts ... | |
 | William, Shakespeare - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 128 pages
...do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will 60 resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,...but I will better the instruction. Enter a servant. SERVANT Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house, and desires to speak with you both. SALARINO... | |
 | 顏元叔 - Comedy - 2001 - 812 pages
...hind'red me half a million, laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted at my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies,...it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. 仙． i.47 - 66. 拿來釣魚呀一假使他那磅肉依不了別的， 它至少可以杖根我的復仇... | |
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I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter... 
