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  2. The Merchant of Venice - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Shylock - Wikipedia

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    All of the marriages that ended The Merchant of Venice are unhappy, Antonio is an obsessive bore reminiscing about his escape from death, but Shylock, freed from religious prejudice, is richer than before and a close friend and confidant of the Doge. Arnold Wesker's play The Merchant (1976) is a reimagining of Shakespeare's story. [12]

  4. All that glitters is not gold - Wikipedia

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    The popular form of the expression is a derivative of a line in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, which employs the word "glisters," a 16th-century synonym for "glitters." The line comes from a secondary plot of the play, in the scroll inside the golden casket the puzzle of Portia 's boxes (Act II – Scene VII – Prince of ...

  5. Antonio (The Merchant of Venice) - Wikipedia

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    "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 ...

  6. 101 birthday wishes and messages to send to all the special ...

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    — William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” “Having a birthday is like reaching a higher peak on a mountain. Pause to admire the view; reflect on how far you have come.”

  7. Biblical allusions in Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Stritmatter, Roger. "‘Old’ and ‘New’ Law in The Merchant of Venice: A Note on the Source of Shylock's Morality in Deuteronomy 15" Notes and Queries 47 (1) (2000): 70-72. Stritmatter, Roger. “By Providence Divine: Shakespeare’s Awareness of Some Geneva Marginal Notes of I Samuel” Notes and Queries 47(1) (Mar 2000): 97–100.

  8. Shakespearean problem play - Wikipedia

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    In four of the plays that Harmon categorizes as problem-plays, The Merchant of Venice, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida, the social order is restored when faulty contracts are properly amended. Harmon's conception of the problem-plays differs from others in that he argues that the problem-plays offer a ...

  9. Portia (The Merchant of Venice) - Wikipedia

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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.