Sentences with phrase «turns shylock»
What turns Shylock from a petty, circumspect miser into a ruthless avenger is his daughter's elopement.
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The character who immediately begins jeering at Shylock when Portia turns the tables on him, the character who offers Shylock only «A halter gratis» nothing else for God's sake» (emphasis added), is named Gratiano, which of course suggests grazia, the Italian word for «grace.»
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.