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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.
Abraham Lee Shakespeare (April 24, 1966 – c. April 7, 2009) was a casual laborer from the US who won a $30 million lottery jackpot in Florida, receiving $17 million in 2006. In 2009, his family declared him missing , and in January 2010 his body was found buried under a concrete slab in the backyard of an acquaintance.
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.
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
The Powerball lottery, which will be drawn on Wednesday evening, has an estimated jackpot of $450 million. ... William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988 but was $1 ...
History has shown us countless examples of lottery winners whose lives took a turn for the worse after hitting the jackpot.
Shakespeare won a $17 million payment from the Florida Lottery in 2006. Prosecutors said that Moore befriended him in 2008, after Shakespeare had given away or loaned most of his winnings.
The Lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.