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In 1876, the critic J. Weiss was the first to assert that Portia assists Bassanio. More recent critics that take this view are S. F. Johnson, in "How Many Ways Portia Informs Bassanio's Choice," and Michael Zuckert in "The New Medea: On Portia's Comic Triumph in The Merchant of Venice," both in 1996.
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 .
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 .
In 1923 a German adaption of The Merchant of Venice was made called the Jew of Mestri with Harry Liedtke as Bassanio. This adaptation attempts to make Shakespeare's play more similar to Il Pecorone , one of the inspirations for The Merchant of Venice ; however, Bassanio's character is very similar to the Shakespeare version.
"Deconstructing the Christian Merchant: Antonio and The Merchant of Venice." Shofar 20.2 (2002) Schneiderman, Jason (2014). "Four Poems". The American Poetry Review. 43 (1): 14–15. ISSN 0360-3709. JSTOR 24592298. Shakespeare, William, and Kenneth Myrick. The Merchant of Venice with New and Updated Critical Essays and a Revised Bibliography ...
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi had a weekend to forget, culminating in the Arrested Development alum undergoing an emergency appendectomy. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's Relationship ...
Old Capulet is a minor character – a kinsman of Capulet – in the party scene of Romeo and Juliet. Old Clifford , father of Clifford, is a Lancastrian leader in Henry VI, Part 2. Old Gobbo, the blind old father of Launcelot Gobbo, is a clown in The Merchant of Venice. Old Hamlet is the father of the title character in Hamlet. His ghost ...