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1、NAMEBACKROUNDCHARACTERSCALAASICASTHE ENDThe background of the work Shakespeares most powerful play comes to bear in Michael Radfords THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, which follows the interlocking lives of a captivating a s s o r t m e n t o f c l a s s i c Shakespearean characters.Someone who cannot name th

2、e source of his melancholy and who, throughout the course of the play, devolves into a self-pitying lump, unable to muster the energy required to defend himself against execution.A clownish Jewish stereotype, or a tragic figure whose sense of decency has been fractured by the persecution he endures.

3、The young, a not frugal friend of Antonio, loves PortiaQuick-witted, wealthy, and b e a u t i f u l , P o r t i a embodies the virtues that are typical of Shakespeares heroinesIN THE COURTSOME CLAASICAL WORDSHath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

4、 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 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,

5、shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will b e t t e r t h e i n s t r u c t i o n . Never be the person who