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Portia is a female protagonist in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. In creating her character, Shakespeare drew from the historical figure of Porcia [ 1 ] — the daughter of Cato the Younger — as well as several parts of the Bible .
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan taken out on behalf of his dear friend, Bassanio, and provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, with seemingly inevitable fatal consequences.
Porcia (c. 73 BC – June 43 BC), [2] [3] occasionally spelled Portia, especially in 18th-century English literature, [4] was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) and his first wife Atilia .
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Weingott, Graham, Roberts and Vernon had all performed their roles in previous productions of Merchant on stage. [7] Annette Andre later recalled "here I was, a nice Catholic girl – God! I’m a long way from that now – playing Jessica, daughter of Shylock. I would’ve loved to play Portia, but Tanya gave a wonderful performance." [9]
Susannah Glanville-Hearson, [1] known professionally as Susannah Fielding, is an English actress.She won the 2014 Ian Charleson Award for her portrayal of Portia in The Merchant of Venice at the Almeida Theatre.
Balthasar is a merchant in The Comedy of Errors. Balthasar is a servant of Portia in The Merchant of Venice. See also Portia in The Merchant of Venice, who takes the name Balthasar in her disguise as a lawyer from Rome. Three Bandits in Timon of Athens seek Timon's gold, but he persuades them to give up villainy.
Portia is a feminine given name taken from the name of the Roman Porcia gens, which was ultimately derived from the Latin porcus, or pig. It is best known as a character who disguises herself as a man to act as a lawyer and save the life of the defendant in William Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice .