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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.
"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 ...
[2] [3] [4] The origin of the casket plot comes from the Gesta Romanorum. In contrast to the Merchant of Venice, the person who must make the decision is a woman, not a man, and she makes her decision after God's will "not, as Bassanio does, after having reasoned out his choice in the best Renaissance manner". [3]
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]
The Merchant of Venice is a 2004 romantic drama film based on William Shakespeare's play. It is the first full-length sound film in English of Shakespeare's play—other versions are videotaped productions that were made for television , including John Sichel 's 1973 version and Jack Gold 's 1980 BBC production.
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All references to The Merchant of Venice, unless otherwise specified, are taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library's Folger Digital Texts edition. [3] Under their referencing system, acts, scenes, and lines are marked in the text, so 2.6.34–40 would be act 2, scene 6, lines 34 through 40.
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.