the merchant of venice

     

Disguised as a lawyer, Portia foils Shylock's plan to collect a pound of flesh in this play

Trivia about the merchant of venice

  • This comedy opens on a Venetian street
  • It's the play that inspired Reynaldo Hahn's opera "Le Marchand de Venise"
  • Portia,Antonio,Bassanio
  • The play in which Portia says, "I never did repent for doing good, nor shall not now"
  • "Il Mercante Di Venezia"
  • Wealthy Portia, her gentlewoman, Nerissa & religiously conflicted Jessica
  • Jessica states that "love is blind" as she elopes (with dad Shylock's ducats) in this comedy
  • Bassanio gets some skin in the game & asks to borrow some money from his pal Antonio to woo a woman in this play
  • "T.M.O.V."
  • The Prince of Morocco & the Prince of Arragon are suitors to Portia in this play
  • In this play Gratiano has the last speech; Portia has the next to last
  • "The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath"
  • "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?"
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a Venetian canal.) Much of this Shakespeare play is set here in the title city, including the trial where Shylock demands a pound of flesh
  • Impersonating an officer of the court, attempted flesh mutilation & loan sharking
  • Because of its portrayal of the Jewish character Shylock, this play was banned in Michigan in 1980
  • "Le Marchand de Venise" is a 1935 opera based on this play
  • Shifting the title's focus:"Jessika"
  • Businessman Antonio begins this play by saying, "In sooth I know not why I am so sad"
  • Surprisingly, Shylock only appears in 5 of this play's scenes, & he's gone by the last act
  • "Rialto Retailer"
  • Some scholars believe that this play may have been based on a now-lost play called "The Jew"
  • Jessica has regrets about her dad but looks forward to marrying Lorenzo & converting to Christianity
  • Antonio:"In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you"
  • Shylock gives the "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" speech in this play
  • "The quality of mercy is rather lumpy, methinks"
  • "If you tickle us, do we not laugh? Let's take a ride on that green giraffe!"
  • Paduan lawyers, sexual identity wackiness, money & deceit... this play doth have it all! Must runneth, ta for now, Bill
  • This play's last scene takes place on the pleasure grounds of Portia's house in Belmont
  • Antonio, the title character of this play, gets its first line: "In sooth I know not why I am so sad"

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