 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...meshes of good counsel the cripple. THE JEW'S MALICE. • £ass. This is signior Antonio. Shy. [Aside.] How like a fawning publican he looks ! \ I hate him,...and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Yenice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him He hates... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...Rialto Í — Who u he comes here ? Kuli? Antonio. litas. This is sitrnior Antonio. Shy. [,'lsidf.] How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him,...us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, 1 will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation ; and he rails, Even there... | |
 | Norman Davies - History - 1996 - 1428 pages
...antagonism between Christians and Jews, captured in Shylock's provocative aside about his rival, Antonio: I hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. . . . He hates our sacred nation; and he rails Even there where merchants do most congregate, On me,... | |
 | 96 pages
...[Nerissa's] praise." 7. Shylock claims to hate Antonio because "he is a Christian;/ But more, for in that low simplicity/ He lends out money gratis, and brings...down/ The rate of usance here with us in Venice." He also remembers being personally insulted by Antonio. 8. Shylock suggests that Antonio is a hypocrite,... | |
 | James Hogg - Fiction - 2003 - 228 pages
...hip at a disadvantage - a term from wrestling. See Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, 1, 3, 40-1: 'If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.' 28 (p. 14) countenance the banquet . . . a day pay for the Christening feast. As the context suggests,... | |
 | Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen - History - 1998 - 330 pages
...Shylock, the usurer become 'bloody creditor', despises Antonio (his debtor), partly because Antonio 'lends out money gratis and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice' (MV, i.iii.4O-i). What Antonio, the good Christian, calls 'interest', Shylock, the 'faithless Jew',... | |
 | Beatrix Hesse - 1998 - 214 pages
...dialogische 'ad spectatores', oft verbunden mit einer Vorderbühnenposition, [...] rückt die Figur catch him once upon the hip,/ I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him."(I.iii.43f) Der Begriff "ancient" deutet die lange Vorgeschichte des Konflikts an, der auf unterschiedliche... | |
 | Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff - English literature - 1999 - 264 pages
...(I,iii,34-5). But when Antonio appears, Shylock reveals a darker side of his nature in an 'aside': I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 284 pages
...soliloquy beginning, How like a fawning publican lie looks. I hate him for he is a Christian. But more, (or that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us [usurers] in Venice. (1.3.36-40) Whether rewriting The Merchant of Venice is even a particularly effective... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2003 - 354 pages
...refer to Shylock's famous 'aside', labelled as such in every modern edition of the play I have seen: How like a fawning publican he looks. I hate him for he is a Christian . . . (1.3.39-40) In Understanding Shakespeare's Plays in Performance, Halio writes that omission of... | |
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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. 
