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In Shakespeare's play, Portia is a wealthy heiress in Belmont. She is bound by a lottery outlined in her father's will, which allows potential suitors to choose one of three caskets made of gold, silver, and lead, respectively. If they choose the correct casket containing Portia's portrait and a scroll, they win her hand in marriage.
Bassanio is a fictional character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Bassanio, the best friend of Antonio, is a spendthrift who wasted all of his money in order to be seen as a respectable man. To regain his fortune, he is determined to marry Portia, a wealthy, intelligent heiress of Belmont.
Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism, edited with Alan Sinfield (1985, 2nd edition 1994) Treading the same path as Radical Tragedy , this collection of essays by leading writers on Shakespeare has as its goal to replace our idea of a timeless, humane and civilising Shakespeare with a Shakespeare anchored in the social ...
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.
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.
Shakespeare – The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. Campbell, Oscar James and Edward G. Quinn. The Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare. New York: Thomas Y Crowell Company (1834). O'Rourke, James L. "Racism and Homophobia in The Merchant of Venice." ELH 70. 2 (2003). Rosenshield, Gary.
A 2016 essay by the literary critic Giuseppe Leone analyses parallels between the episode of Claudio's supposed beheading and that of John the Baptist, as narrated in Matthew 14:1–12. Leone argues that in Shakespeare's treatment of the perpetrator's demand for Claudio's head there is an expression of Angelo's pleasure in his power to have his ...
Nerissa may refer to: Nerissa (given name), a feminine given name; Nerissa, a character in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice; Mira, a wasp genus in the subfamily Encyrtinae; Cepora nerissa, the common gull, a butterfly in the family Pieridae; HMS Nerissa (disambiguation) SS Nerissa, a number of ships of this name