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In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father’s will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all.
Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. In creating Shylock, Shakespeare seems to have shared in a widespread prejudice against Jews. Shylock would have been regarded as a villain because he was a Jew. Yet he gives such powerful expression to his alienation due to the hatred around him that, in many productions, he emerges as the hero.
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Release date: 3 December 1992
ISBN-10 : 0521425042 | ISBN-13: 9780521425049
Release date: 3 December 1992
ISBN-10 : 0521425042 | ISBN-13: 9780521425049
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