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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.
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.
Shylock's trial at the end of the play is a mockery of justice, with Portia acting as a judge when she has no real right to do so. Shakespeare does not question Shylock's intentions, but that the very people who berated Shylock for being dishonest have resorted to trickery in order to win. Shakespeare gives Shylock one of his most eloquent ...
In the caption of the photos which were posted on Facebook, Jones explains that his daughter created several social media accounts pretending to be years older than she is and was dating an older ...
The lawyer's clerk is Nerissa in disguise. Portia asks Shylock to show mercy, but Shylock refuses. Thus, the court allows Shylock to extract the pound of flesh. At the moment when Shylock is about to cut Antonio with his knife, Portia points to a flaw in the contract. The bond allows Shylock to remove only the flesh, not the blood, of Antonio.
From Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller “Babygirl,” to a book of sexual fantasies edited by Gillian Anderson, this was the year the female sex drive took the wheel in popular culture.
Harper Beckham, the 13-year-old daughter of David and Victoria Beckham, sparked controversy after a video of her promoting her mother’s makeup brand went viral. Taking to her TikTok page on ...
Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying.The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism.