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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. Barlaam and Josaphat - Wikipedia

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    Among the manuscripts in English, two of the most important are the British Library MS Egerton 876 (the basis for Ikegami's book) and MS Peterhouse 257 (the basis for Hirsh's book) at the University of Cambridge. The book contains a tale similar to The Three Caskets found in the Gesta Romanorum and later in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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]

  6. The Merchant (play) - Wikipedia

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    The Merchant is a 1976 play in two acts [1] by the English dramatist Arnold Wesker. It is based on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and focuses on the Jewish Shylock character, that play's principal antagonist. [2] [3] Wesker began writing the play after seeing a 1973 performance by Laurence Olivier. [2]

  7. List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Salarino is a friend of Solanio, Antonio, Bassanio, and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice. Salerio is a friend of Solanio, Antonio, Bassanio, and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice. Salisbury: The Earl of Salisbury delivers bad news to Constance, in King John. The Earl of Salisbury remains loyal to King Richard in Richard II.

  8. Antonio (The Merchant of Venice) - Wikipedia

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    Alan Bray's book Homosexuality in Renaissance England argues that in the time period of The Merchant of Venice ' s composition, "homosexuality" did not refer to an individual's sexual identity but only to specific sexual acts any individual might engage in. As Bray writes: "To talk of an individual of this period as being or not being 'a ...

  9. Between you and I - Wikipedia

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    James Cochrane, author of Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English (2004), gives a similar explanation—in this case, "people"'s feeling some unease with a sentence like "Me and Bill went out for beers"; Cochrane does not, however, mark it as a hypercorrection, and suggests the phrase only came about "in the last twenty or so years" [20 ...