The Merchant of VeniceShylock loans money to a man he despises, the merchant Antonio, only if a pound of Antonio's flesh will be due, in a court of law, upon default. Antonio borrows the money so that his friend Bessanio can travel to woo the woman he loves, Portia, whose freedom to marry is bound up in a fairy-tale decree of her father's. |
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... Elizabethans . There was general agree- ment that usury ( the " lending for gaine , by compact , not adven- turing the principall " ) was a great evil , but some said that it should be legalized and controlled . The Scriptures and the ...
... Elizabethans . There was general agree- ment that usury ( the " lending for gaine , by compact , not adven- turing the principall " ) was a great evil , but some said that it should be legalized and controlled . The Scriptures and the ...
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... Elizabethan audience . In picturing him as such , and in giving a long argument on the rights and wrongs of usury , Shakespeare added to his source as found in Il Pecorone . Shylock's opening dialogue might have been studied from life ...
... Elizabethan audience . In picturing him as such , and in giving a long argument on the rights and wrongs of usury , Shakespeare added to his source as found in Il Pecorone . Shylock's opening dialogue might have been studied from life ...
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... Elizabethan Drama ( 1925 ) , p . 219 ) suggested Shylock was a form of Shelah ( Genesis , x . 24 ) , the father of Eber ( i.e. , Hebrew ) ; and ( 5 ) N. Nathan ( S.A.B. , xxiii ( 1948 ) , 152 ) quoted O.E.D. , " Shullock " : " Obs . exc ...
... Elizabethan Drama ( 1925 ) , p . 219 ) suggested Shylock was a form of Shelah ( Genesis , x . 24 ) , the father of Eber ( i.e. , Hebrew ) ; and ( 5 ) N. Nathan ( S.A.B. , xxiii ( 1948 ) , 152 ) quoted O.E.D. , " Shullock " : " Obs . exc ...
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