Shakespeare's Comedy of the Merchant of Venice: With Preface, Glossary & C |
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... Play at Drury Lane , there stood behind me in the box a pale , fair Briton , who at the end of the Fourth Act , fell a - weeping passionately , several times ex- claiming , ' The poor man is wronged ! ' ... When I think of those tears I ...
... Play at Drury Lane , there stood behind me in the box a pale , fair Briton , who at the end of the Fourth Act , fell a - weeping passionately , several times ex- claiming , ' The poor man is wronged ! ' ... When I think of those tears I ...
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... play , and held the stage from the date of its appearance in 1701 ; Macklin's revival of The Merchant of Venice at the Drury Lane in 1741 dealt a death- blow to Lansdowne's monstrosity , and restored again to the stage ' The Jew That ...
... play , and held the stage from the date of its appearance in 1701 ; Macklin's revival of The Merchant of Venice at the Drury Lane in 1741 dealt a death- blow to Lansdowne's monstrosity , and restored again to the stage ' The Jew That ...
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... play . In Henslowe's Diary under the date August 25th , 1594 ' mention is made of ' The Venesyon Comodey ' ( i.e. ' The Venetian Comedy ' ) as a new play ; one cannot , however , with any certainty identify Henslowe's comedy with The ...
... play . In Henslowe's Diary under the date August 25th , 1594 ' mention is made of ' The Venesyon Comodey ' ( i.e. ' The Venetian Comedy ' ) as a new play ; one cannot , however , with any certainty identify Henslowe's comedy with The ...
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... play Wily Beguiled , probably written in 1596-7 ; similarly in a Latin play , Machiavellus , acted at St. John's College , Cambridge , at Christmas 1597 ( preserved in the Bodleian Lib- rary ) , there is the incident of a Jew whetting ...
... play Wily Beguiled , probably written in 1596-7 ; similarly in a Latin play , Machiavellus , acted at St. John's College , Cambridge , at Christmas 1597 ( preserved in the Bodleian Lib- rary ) , there is the incident of a Jew whetting ...
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... play in a letter of Spenser to Gabriel Harvey of the same year , 1579 , in which he signs himself He that is fast bound unto thee in more obligations than any mer- chant of Italy to any Jew there ' ; and again perhaps the Jew Gerontus ...
... play in a letter of Spenser to Gabriel Harvey of the same year , 1579 , in which he signs himself He that is fast bound unto thee in more obligations than any mer- chant of Italy to any Jew there ' ; and again perhaps the Jew Gerontus ...
Common terms and phrases
Bass Bellario Belmont better blood bond casket choose chooseth Christian clerk daughter deserves devil Dido doctor dost doth Duke editions Enter Bassanio Enter Portia Exeunt Exit eyes fair Fair ladies father fool forfeit fortune Genoa gentle give gold Gratiano hast hath hear heart heaven honour husband Jacob's staff Jessica Jew's Jew's house judge justice lady Laun look Lord Bassanio Lorenzo madam masque Master Launcelot Medea Merchant of Venice mercy merry mistress Nerissa never night oath Padua play Portia's house pound of flesh pray thee prince Rialto ring room in Portia's Sabaoth Salan Salanio Salar Salarino Saler Salerio Scene second Quarto servants Shakespeare shalt Shylock Signior Antonio sola soul speak stand swear sweet tell thing thou three thousand ducats to-night Tubal unto wife word young
Popular passages
Page 12 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 21 - Shylock, we would have moneys : " you say so, You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say " Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Page 111 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended, and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 89 - You have among you many a purchas'd slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them. Shall I say to you, Let them be free, marry them to your heirs ? Why sweat they under burdens ? let their beds Be made as soft as yours, and let their palates Be season'd with such viands ? You will answer, The slaves are ours.
Page 12 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster...
Page 93 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blest ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 58 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 20 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart : O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 58 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Page 107 - In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.