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The Merchant of Venice: The Folger Library General Reader's Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice The Folger Library General Reader's Shakespeare Author:Shakespeare, Louis Wright (Editor), Virginia LaMar (Editor) In Act IV, Scene i, appears the dramatic highlight of The Merchant Of Venice, when Portia attempts to save Antonio from Shylock and Shylock from himself. It is here that she utters the famous speech on mercy, possibly the best-known passage in all of Shakespeare's plays, in a vain effort to soften the usurer's implacable determination to... more » have Antonio's very flesh in retaliation for the slights he has suffered from the Venetian merchant.
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