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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.
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 appears to exhort Hamlet to revenge Old Hamlet's murder by Claudius. An Old Lady (fict) is a rather worldly friend of Anne Bullen, in Henry VIII.
Jessica is the daughter of Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (c. 1598).In the play, she elopes with Lorenzo, a penniless Christian, and a chest of her father's money, eventually ending up in Portia and Bassanio's household.
Launcelot Gobbo, a clown in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice; Old Gobbo, father of Launcelot Gobbo, also in The Merchant of Venice; Gobbo, a goblin character in the Noddy books by Enid Blyton Gobbo, a goblin character in the children's TV series Make Way for Noddy
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The Merchant of Venice is a 1969 drama short film directed by Orson Welles based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. While actually completed, it is frequently cited as an unfinished film, though better described as a partially lost film due to the loss of film elements.
The statue Il Gobbo di Rialto was also sculpted in the sixteenth century. The Rialto is mentioned in works of literature, notably in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, where Salanio asks "What news on the Rialto?" at the opening of Act III, Scene I.
Crook appeared as Launcelot Gobbo in Michael Radford's 2004 film adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, [13] and had a minor role in the 2004 film Finding Neverland as a theatre usher. [11] His other film appearances include The Gathering (2003) and The Brothers Grimm (2005). [citation needed]