Sentences with phrase «by shylock»

Antonio is unmoved by Shylock's indignant response to such humiliations and tells him to lend the money «to thine enemy, / Who if he break, thou mayst with better face / Exact the penalty.»

Such provocation for anti-Semitism as it provides has been there in the culture all along, and the principal effect of The Merchant of Venice is to disrupt any ideological complacency deriving from the apparent Jewish stereotype presented by Shylock.

Not exact matches

Although initially dismissed by many reviewers --(here's John Updike, condemning it alongside Hamlet: «an orgy of argumentation... too many characters, numerous long speeches, and a vacillating, maddening hero»)-- Philip Roth's Operation Shylock (1993) has undergone something of a critical renaissance in the new millennium.

By doing this they're asking for a big - time rebellion, a sad Jessica - betrays - her - father - Shylock story.

Both Barabas and Shylock have only daughters who, their fathers feel, betray them by becoming Christians.

While commentators of an earlier generation sought to save Shakespeare and the Christian characters from the charge of intolerance and anti-Semitism by turning the play into an allegory, more recent readings often maintain, to the contrary, that Shakespeare in fact lays the groundwork for the racialist anti-Semitism of a later era in the character of Shylock.

Dressed in a maroon and khaki uniform, Portia slammed a law book on the desk of a petite, blonde judge and demanded that Shylock — played by a thin boy with glasses and a menacing glare — take his pound of flesh without shedding a drop of blood.

She has to pay her mortgage by the date written in huge scarlet letters on her wall, or the shylock would cast an evil spell on her that would impede her ability to earn those fabulous Ultimate Rewards points (or other points for that matter).