What kind of idiot would insist that his daughter's husband be chosen on which one of three chests he picks? The husband she is sure to get is the one who is unscrupulous and clever enough to get together with two friends and say; "OK, we'll each take the test: you take the silver one, you take the gold one and I'll take the lead one. One of us has to be right, we'll get the girl and split her money."
It is absurd that this did not happen within weeks of the terms of the will being known.
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.
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 was written by William Shakespeare. It is considered a comedy. The main character is Antonio, the merchant.
It's a play by Shakespeare.
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.
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.
The Merchant of Venice
No, actually Macbeth is in the play called "Macbeth." The Merchant of Venice is a different play, with entirely different characters, but both are in the category of Shakespearean plays.