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... plays for the theaters in London . In the same year a contemporary dramatist speaks of him as an excellent actor on the stage . Here then we have him fairly launched on his literary career . That body of actors and playwrights which our ...
... plays for the theaters in London . In the same year a contemporary dramatist speaks of him as an excellent actor on the stage . Here then we have him fairly launched on his literary career . That body of actors and playwrights which our ...
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... plays which he wrote for the stage during those busy twenty years in London . Nearly forty of these plays have come down to us , and some may have been lost . As a rule , the ones which he wrote first are not as good as the later ones ...
... plays which he wrote for the stage during those busy twenty years in London . Nearly forty of these plays have come down to us , and some may have been lost . As a rule , the ones which he wrote first are not as good as the later ones ...
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... plays ; The Merchant of Venice , one of his first great successes ; Twelfth Night , one of the most delightful of master- pieces ; Measure for Measure , sadder and sterner , though with a happy ending ; and the beautiful romances of The ...
... plays ; The Merchant of Venice , one of his first great successes ; Twelfth Night , one of the most delightful of master- pieces ; Measure for Measure , sadder and sterner , though with a happy ending ; and the beautiful romances of The ...
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... plays were written to be spoken ; and it is only when we read them aloud , get- ting into their full current of sound , that we can properly appreciate and enjoy them . III THE MERCHANT OF VENICE A play differs from a story in that it ...
... plays were written to be spoken ; and it is only when we read them aloud , get- ting into their full current of sound , that we can properly appreciate and enjoy them . III THE MERCHANT OF VENICE A play differs from a story in that it ...
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... play is an attempt on the author's part to make us believe that we actually are there and see it . Thus , in The Merchant of Venice we are not told that Shylock made a treacherous bargain with Antonio ; but we see Shylock and Antonio ...
... play is an attempt on the author's part to make us believe that we actually are there and see it . Thus , in The Merchant of Venice we are not told that Shylock made a treacherous bargain with Antonio ; but we see Shylock and Antonio ...
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Anne Hathaway Antonio Arragon bag-pipe Bass Bassanio beautiful Bellario Belmont better Black Monday Blank Verse bond casket choose chooseth Christian comedy daughter doth Duke Edited English Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair father fool foot fortune Genoa gentle give Gobbo gold golden casket Gratiano hast hate hath hear heart heaven Hesione honor husband Jew's judge Julius Cæsar justice lady Laun Lord Bassanio Lorenzo and Jessica lover married means Merchant of Venice mercy merry Morocco Nerissa never night noble Padua peize play poet Portia PORTIA AND NERISSA pound of flesh pray thee prince Rape of Lucrece ring Salan SALANIO Salar Salarino Saler Salerio SCENE Shakespeare ship Shylock Signior soul speak speech story swear sweet syllables tell thing thou Three thousand ducats Tubal unto wife word young ΙΟ
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Page 17 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 51 - If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh ? If you poison us, do we not die ? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. 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 19 - 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 6 - 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 81 - And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation ; we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much, To mitigate the justice of thy plea ; Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.
Page 92 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise...
Page 82 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart. If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 95 - But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Page 19 - 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 94 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins: Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we...