 | Omer Bartov - Performing Arts - 2005 - 396 pages
...These are the lines most often quoted. Less often quoted is the final part of the soliloquy: "And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like...it shall go hard but I will better the instruction" (The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 1). 25. Insdorf, Indelible Shadows, 285-86. 26. See http://www.paramountclassic... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Electronic books - 2005 - 472 pages
...antitheses with the logical fulcrum 'If here, then there' tying the two parts still more closely together: If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you...sufferance be by Christian example? Why revenge. The equality having been established (and the structure has placed 'humility' with particular ironic force)... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 186 pages
...speech beginning "I am a Jew," however, are anything but the declarations they are most often taken for: I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands,...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 (58-73).... | |
 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 980 pages
...presents his own drive for revenge as an attribute that he shares with his Venetian neighbors: "if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? - if we are like...sufferance be by Christian example? - why, revenge!" (3.1.60-62). He is a pariah, yes, but in a polis of pariahs, laying claim to a provisional universality... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - English drama - 2006 - 324 pages
...if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in diat. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility?...execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.17 At first glance, Kortner's impersonation of Shylock seems negative, in a rather provocative... | |
 | Kevin J. Vanhoozer, James K. A. Smith, Bruce Ellis Benson - Philosophy - 2006 - 264 pages
...laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if yon wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like yon in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew...sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. (The Merchant of Venice, 1. 1.47-68) These words have an ethical dimension because they are spoken by someone,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Dramatists, English - 2007 - 1288 pages
...hath disgraced me, and hinder'd me half a million; laught at my losses, mockt at my gains, scorn'd caps; which, your majesty SERVANT/JWI ANTONIO. SERVANT. Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house, and desires to speak with... | |
 | Michele Marrapodi - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 310 pages
...to 'sameness' which discloses, not shared identity, but hybridity: Hath not a Jew eyes'? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections,...it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. (3.1 .52-66) We have become deaf to certain of the nuances of this familiar speech. A context for some... | |
 | Evlyn Gould, George J. Sheridan - History - 2007 - 276 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...it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. (3.1.50-69) While we must not sentimentalize this speech, we might well view Shylock's remark "Hath... | |
 | Penny Gay - Literary Criticism - 2008
...encapsulates this perception: he is both a generic human body and a member of an ideological group. I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands,...it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. (3.1.46-57) Wars, therefore, will continue, as ideology negates shared humanity. This is why the confrontation... | |
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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... 
