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      • Antonio is the protagonist and titular merchant in The Merchant of Venice. Antonio incites the central conflict of the play by accepting Shylock’s terms in order to secure a loan. Antonio wants to help Bassanio win Portia, and is willing to do anything to achieve this goal.
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  2. Portia is the hero of the The Merchant of Venice. Men create or get themselves into predicaments, but Portia steers them through them successfully. Her greatest triumph comes when she...

  3. Antonio is the protagonist and titular merchant in The Merchant of Venice. Antonio incites the central conflict of the play by accepting Shylock’s terms in order to secure a loan. Antonio wants to help Bassanio win Portia, and is willing to do anything to achieve this goal.

  4. The Hero of Venice (Italian: Il bravo di Venezia) is a 1941 Italian historical adventure film directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring Gustav Diessl, Paola Barbara, Rossano Brazzi and Valentina Cortese. It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav Abel and Amleto Bonetti.

  5. By Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine. Editors of the Folger Shakespeare Library Editions. The Merchant of Venice, like most of Shakespeare’s comedies, is about love and marriage. But the path to marriage in this play is unusually hazardous. The characters compare it to the epic voyage undertaken by Jason and the Argonauts to win the Golden Fleece.

  6. The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan taken out on behalf of his dear friend, Bassanio, and provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock , with seemingly inevitable fatal consequences.

    • William Shakespeare
    • 1932
  7. Mar 12, 2024 · The Merchant of Venice | Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare's works / The Merchant of Venice. Full text. Our collection. Essays and resources. Blog posts and podcasts. For teachers. Early printed texts. Introduction to the play. In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous.

  8. William Shakespeare. Years Written. c. 1596–97. Type. Play. Genre. Comedy. About the Title. The Merchant of Venice may refer to the character Antonio, a wealthy Venetian merchant whose trade and relationships intersect in ways that place him in mortal danger when he makes a deal with a moneylender.