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Act Scene Location Appr. # lines Synopsis I 1 Venice. A street. 188 Bassanio, a young Venetian of noble rank, wishes to woo the beautiful and wealthy heiress Portia of Belmont. Having squandered his estate, he needs money to properly present himself as a suitor. Bassanio approaches his friend Antonio, a wealthy merchant of Venice, for a loan.
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. ... — The Merchant of Venice. Act 4, scene 1, ...
An argosy is a merchant ship, [1] [2] or a fleet of such ships. As used by Shakespeare (e.g., in King Henry VI, Part 3, Act 2, Scene VI; in the Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene I and Scene III; and in The Taming of the Shrew, Act 2, Scene I), the word means a flotilla of merchant ships operating together under the same ownership.
1 Television and films. 2 Books. 3 Music. ... "The quality of mercy", a notable speech in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice; Television and films
Jessica next appears at Belmont in act 3, scene 2, accompanying Lorenzo and Salerio, a messenger delivering a letter to Bassanio from Antonio. The letter informs him that all Antonio's business ventures have failed, such that he has defaulted on the bond to Shylock, and that Shylock intends to collect on the "pound of flesh".
Far from lamenting his ill-treatment of the Jew who accuses him of spitting on him and calling him a dog, Antonio replies persistently "I am as likely to call thee so again, /To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too." (The Merchant of Venice 1.3/140–141) He agrees to pay with a pound of flesh if he forfeits the bond in lieu of the usual interest.
In act 1, scene 3, Shylock finally agrees to lend Bassanio three thousand ducats they all agree to the loan, Bassanio offers Shylock to eat with him, but he denies the offer on the grounds of eating with Christians. After a long debate about the Jewish versus Christian morality of charging interest on loans, Shylock decides to add a clause that ...
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.