By William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 1438067836
ISBN-13: 9781438067834
The service provider of Venice is an interesting drama of affection, greed and revenge. At its middle, the play contrasts the characters of the maddened and vengeful Shylock, a Venetian moneylender, with the gracious, level-headed Portia, a filthy rich younger girl besieged through suitors.
At the play's climax, Shylock insists binding agreement be enforced as a way to rate the lifetime of the service provider Antonio. Pleading Antonio's case sooner than the Duke of Venice, Portia shrewdly defeats Shylock's evil objective.
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However, the play can also be seen as evoking some of the English queen's strengths. For example, by dramatizing Cleopatra's political acumen, it may have evoked sentimental memories of Elizabeth's gifts too. W O R L D ITS w a s a so t n e Reception. Antony and Cleopatra has evoked a wide range of critical response, from those who condemn it as one of Shakespeare's worst plays to those, with G. Wilson Knight, who rate it as "probably the subtlest and greatest play in Shakespeare" (Knight in Neill, p.
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