 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...  The Plays of William Shakspeare: Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's ... - Page 48by William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Icon Reference - 2006 - 152 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | H.E. Marshall - 2007 - 666 pages
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 | 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,... | |
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