Tag: Merchant
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The Merchant of Venice: treatment of the jews in England |notes|ideas|Shylock
After the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in the first century of the common era and the destruction of the Second Temple, Jews were dispersed throughout the world. Many settled in Europe, North Africa, or elsewhere in the Middle East, though a small remnant remained in what is now Israel. During the first millennium,…
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The Merchant of Venice: Characterisation |Analysis |notes|Shylock
Characterisation : To what extent are the characters in Shakespeare’s plays, and specifically those in The Merchant of Venice, real people? Some critics argue that dramatic characters, like characters in a novel, are not real but convey only the illusion of people in real life. They lack any existence before the play begins as well…