No, he was not born in Venice.
The clown in the Merchant of Venice is Lancelot Gobbo.
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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.
Shakespeare wrote As You Like It and Merchant of Venice.
All of Shakespeare's plays have five acts.
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most of it was set in Venice, Italy.
William Shakespeare was the author
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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.
It is from Merchant of Venice.
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