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The Merchant of Venice
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Madurai’s Mannar Thirumalai Naicker College set to stage Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’
• Jan. 8, 2025, 3:11 AM ET (The Hindu)
The Merchant of Venice, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1596–97 and printed in a quarto edition in 1600 from an authorial manuscript or copy of one. Bassanio, a noble but penniless Venetian, asks his wealthy merchant friend Antonio for a loan so that Bassanio can undertake a journey to woo the heiress Portia. Antonio, whose money is invested in foreign ventures, borrows the sum from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, on the condition that, if the loan cannot be repaid in time, Antonio will forfeit a pound of flesh. Antonio is reluctant to do business with Shylock, ...(100 of 477 words)