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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. 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 ...

  4. Tales from Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by the siblings Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807, intended "for the use of young persons" [1] while retaining as much Shakespearean language as possible. [2]

  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. Jessica (The Merchant of Venice) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    It being "the most straightforwardly mythological" and tracing "farthest backward (if only dimly so) in history," Asimov includes in his regional categorisation, beginning with the "Greek", Shakespeare’s first narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593).

  8. The RSC Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    The RSC Shakespeare is a 2007 collected edition of the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare.It contains 38 plays, two narrative poems, two shorter poems, the 154 Sonnets, and a transcription of a scene from Sir Thomas More, as well as a general introduction, annotations, and various appendices. [1]

  9. Between you and I - Wikipedia

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    "Between you and I" occurs in act 3, scene 2, of The Merchant of Venice, in a letter written in prose by Antonio, the titular character, to his friend Bassanio: [4] [5] "Sweet Bassanio, ... all debts are cleared between you and I if I might but see you at my death." [6]