It is a comedy but it has a tragic subplot.
The Merchant of Venice was written by William Shakespeare. It is considered a comedy. The main character is Antonio, the merchant.
No. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy, not a musical. However, several films have been made based off of The Merchant of Venice.
Who knows? The Duke of Venice is not a character in the play The Merchant of Venice. In Othello, yes. But not in the Merchant of Venice.
the line is from a play called the merchant of Venice
You will find Portia and Shylock in the play of Hamlet.
It is from Merchant of Venice.
There is no "audience" in the play Merchant of Venice, unlike Hamlet or A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The Merchant of Venice, despite its blatant antisemitism, is considered a 'romance' by top Shakespeare scholars because it has no decisive style as do most of Shakespeare's plays.
Launcelot Gobbo (a clown, first Shylock's servant and then Bassanio's) says this to Gobbo, his father in The Merchant of Venice (act 2 Scene 2). He has just encountered his father, who does not recognize him.
It's a play by Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's play was never called The Jew of Venice. It was always The Merchant of Venice. You may have been thinking of Christopher Marlowe's play, The Jew of Malta.
There is no masked ball in the Merchant of Venice. Sorry. Not in Shakespeare's play, anyway.