Sentences with word «shylock»

The Merchant of Venice sets a concept of justice tempered with mercy over against unbending legalism and self - righteousness, but it reminds us» in the troubling figure of Shylock as well as in the failure of the Christian characters to integrate him into the comic conclusion» that even expressions of mercy can be tainted with self - righteousness.

Additionally, Hoffman received a Tony ® Award nomination for his role as Shylock in «The Merchant of Venice,» which he reprised from his long run on the London Stage.

Back in 2012, at the end of the Stratford Festival's season, the CBC arranged to have a mock appeal by Shylock of his conviction in Merchant of Venice, argued under current Canadian law and before an august court of lawyers and judges.

Banks before 1978 were told how much interest they could charge (15 % max since colonial times), although now typically high rates, up to 30 % would make Shylock blush.

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.

As is so often the case in Shakespeare, the irony is doubled: Shylock gives utterance to an impassioned plea for the common humanity in all men even as he is hardening his heart to exact a terrible vengeance; Portia eloquently extols the virtue of mercy in the hearts of kings and seems promptly to forget her own speech when she comes to exercise power herself.

From the outset Shakespeare sets about providing Shylock with powerful motivation for his hatred of Antonio.

When Antonio offers Shylock surety for a loan of 3,000 ducats to the improvident Bassanio, the aggrieved moneylender reminds the merchant that he has called the Jew «misbeliever, cut - throat dog» along with a host of other insults.

The price for the loan carries no interest, but the fee for non-payment is precious indeed — a pound of flesh is to be taken from Antonio, the location of which is to be at Shylock's choosing.

Shylock asks, «Is it possible / A cur can lend three thousand ducats?»

A range of resources for KS3 and KS4 consisting of a 12 lesson scheme for A Midsummer Night's Dream, a lesson on character analysis based on Shylock and lessons from Acts 1, 2 and 3 of Macbeth for KS4 along with an exam process and themes and context consolidation.

Mr Shylock why don't you start us off.

WORK EXPERIENCE February 2007 — Present Shylock Lenders Credit Coordinator • Process credit applications • Field telephone calls and release orders • Develop bank and trade reference letters • Resolve past due issues • Obtain financial and demographic information • Follow up on delinquent accounts • Make recommendations on uncollectable accounts and inform outside collection agencies

That would yield yet another «Yes» for Shylock and another «No» in the Big Corp column.

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

Moreover, the parallel with Malvolio assimilates Shylock to another category: in Twelfth Night Maria calls Malvolio «a kind of Puritan.»

Shakespeare's audience, which would have had little chance to associate with Jews, would have found Shylock's disapproval of plays and revelry familiar enough: «What, are there masques?

It is this betrayal by his own flesh and blood, and the jeering of the minor Christian characters Solanio and Salerio, that render Shylock implacable, not the mythical Jewish bloodlust of medieval fantasy.

Shakespeare, however, has already let us know, in an aside earlier in the scene, that Shylock hates Antonio because «he is a Christian» and because «He lends out money gratis, and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice.»

What turns Shylock from a petty, circumspect miser into a ruthless avenger is his daughter's elopement.

It is precisely because Shylock is so cruel and repellent that his appeal to our common humanity is so poignant.

Antonio's acceptance of the «merry bond» of a pound of his flesh to be granted Shylock in the unlikely event of forfeiture allows Antonio to avoid entering an agreement involving interest, to which he was willing to agree «only to supply the ripe wants of my friend.»

This disruption does not entail Shylock's romantic transmogrification into a tragic hero; in fact, it is his stubborn villainy that generates the uneasy tension that runs through the drama.

The devastated Shylock slinking off the stage casts a shadow over the comedy and romance of The Merchant of Venice, but we can not suppose this effect to be inadvertent on Shakespeare's part, because he does the same thing in other plays.

Salerio and Solanio do not, at first, take Shylock seriously; they can not believe that he will go through with his threat.

In a masterstroke of irony, Shakespeare has Shylock claim his common humanity most poignantly in the course of justifying his most inhuman act.

In one of the play's two most famous speeches, Shylock berates the Christians for failing to acknowledge his equally human status even as he is bent upon shedding it: «Hath not a Jew eyes?»

The Duke, Bassanio, and Antonio» once the threat is past» are all willing to allow a chagrined Shylock to walk away with his money; it is the iron - willed Portia who demands that he be held to the strict letter of the law, just as he himself has insisted.

The end of the play would be much more comfortable for us if we could treat the Portia of the trial scene as an allegory of the Divine Judge who forces Shylock (the allegorical sinner) to relinquish all his wealth with the conditional restoration of a part of it upon his baptism» that is, he must throw down everything he has and follow Christ.

Yes Ozil is a warrior, Wenger is a genius but both will NEVER achieve anything meaningful under Mr. Shylock Kroenke who drains the life and creative energy off everything Arsenal.

Colm Meaney is superb as the cold - hearted shylock to whom she owes a debt and pays it off by working in the sex trade.

Antonio is low on funds himself, but allows Bassanio to use his name and reputation to secure a loan from a Jewish merchant named Shylock (Pacino, The Recruit) for the the money required for the journey.

Dunbar is the latest installment in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, a collection of modern prose retellings of Shakespeare's plays that includes Margaret Atwood's take on The Tempest, Hag - Seed, and Howard Jacobson's interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, titled Shylock Is My Name.

After the war, Geraci started his own shylock operation.

Jacobson recently penned a novel based on the play as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare programme, whilst Goodman has played Shylock, one of the main characters in the play, on stage.

Credit cards are a way better option since they give you a bit of flexibility and their rates aren't as usurious as those of payday loans shylocks.

Her village shylock won't accept her student loan payments in UR points either (I bet you didn't know that milking a cow requires a college degree and licensing in Susan's village), and neither will the village's witch doctor — later about that.

That Shakespeare was comparing mankind to corporations that would exist in the far - flung future is readily apparent in this chart, in which Shylock contrasts the two:

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.

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.

Shakespeare worked out the logic in The Merchant of Venice when he has Shylock ask:

Mr Shylock, you're unrepresented?»

And Lynn Collins made a lovely Portia opposite Al Pacino's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, but as Wolverine's schoolteacher girlfriend, the quality of her mercy is a bit strained.

Did he command genocide, support slavery, and in demanding his debt of flesh is he Shylock's archetype?

Shylock is persistent in his demand that the legal contract be carried out exactly as it is written, confident in the justice of his cause: «My deeds upon my head!

Shylock is prevented from cutting away a pound of Antonio's flesh from very near his heart, but in a sense the Christians cut Shylock's heart out of his body without shedding a drop of his blood.

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

The character contradicts the name, and this is the man who most avidly seconds Portia in her complete humiliation of Shylock, though the others join in readily enough.