So shines a good deed in a naughty world. “How far that little candle throws his beams! Summer as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?” Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses,Īffections, passions fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and The pretty follies that themselves commit.” The Merchant of Venice and Richard II all date from the mid to late 1590s. With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the Jewe towards the sayd merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh: and the obtayning of Portia by the choyse of three chests.
His father was a glove maker and wool merchant and his mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a well-to-do local land owner. The title page of the first quarto printing of The Merchant of Venice (1600) gives a succinct summary of the plot: ‘The most excellent historie of the merchant of Venice. “But love is blind, and lovers cannot see William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, and was baptised on 26 April 1564. “It is a wise father who knows his own child.” “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.” “God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.” “If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.”
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