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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. Bassanio - Wikipedia

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    In Il Pecorone, there is a similar plot to the ring plot in the Merchant of Venice, but it only exists between one pair, instead of the two couples in the Merchant of Venice. Additionally, the character that is the Bassanio equivalent does not try to apologize for giving away the ring in Il Pecorone , and those that are involved in the ring ...

  5. Portia (The Merchant of Venice) - Wikipedia

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    Opposing this view is Robert Hapgood in "Portia and The Merchant of Venice: The Gentle Bond" (1967) and Corinne S. Abate in "Nerissa Teaches Me What to Believe: Portia's Wifely Empowerment in The Merchant of Venice" (2002). [6] Despite her lack of formal legal training, Portia wins her case by referring to the exact language of the law.

  6. List of fictional antiheroes - Wikipedia

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    The Merchant of Venice: William Shakespeare: 1596 [6] Prince Hamlet: Hamlet: 1599–1602 [7] Othello: Othello: 1603 [8] Lady Macbeth: Macbeth: 1623 [9] Satan: Paradise Lost : John Milton: 1667 [10] [11] Phèdre: Phèdre: Jean Racine: 1677 [12] Redmond Barry The Luck of Barry Lyndon: William Makepeace Thackeray: 1844 [13] Edward Rochester: Jane ...

  7. 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]

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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.