Merchant of VeniceMerchant of Venice- -- Act ISlide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11Slide 12Slide 13Merchant of Venice- -- Act IISlide 15Slide 16Slide 17Slide 18Slide 19Slide 20Slide 21Merchant of Venice- -- Act IIISlide 23Slide 24Slide 25Slide 26Slide 27Slide 28Merchant of Venice- -- Act IVSlide 30Slide 31Slide 32Slide 33Slide 34Slide 35Slide 36Slide 37Merchant of Venice- -- Act VSlide 39Slide 40Slide 41Merchant of VeniceMerchant of VeniceStructure, speeches, and stagingMerchant of Venice- -- Act IMerchant of Venice- -- Act IScene 1VeniceAntonio and BassanioScene 2BelmontPortia andNerissaScene 3VeniceShylockAnt / BassMerchant of Venice- -- Act IMerchant of Venice- -- Act IScene 1In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:It wearies me; you say it wearies you;But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,I am to learn;And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,That I have much ado to know myself.Merchant of Venice- -- Act IMerchant of Venice- -- Act IScene 1‘Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,How much I have disabled mine estate,. . . To you, Antonio,I owe the most, in money and in love,And from your love I have a warrantyTo unburden all my plots and purposesHow to get clear of all the debts I owe.Merchant of Venice- -- Act IMerchant of Venice- -- Act IScene 1In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,I shot his fellow of the self-same flightThe self-same way with more advised watch,To find the other forth, and by adventuring bothI oft found both.Merchant of Venice- -- Act IMerchant of Venice- -- Act IScene 1In Belmont is a lady richly left;And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyesI did receive fair speechless messages:Her name is Portia, nothing undervaluedTo Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia.Merchant of Venice- -- Act IMerchant of Venice- -- Act IScene 1Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea;Neither have I money nor commodityTo raise a present sum: therefore go forth;Try what my credit can in Venice do:That shall be rack'd, even to the uttermost,To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.Go, presently inquire, and so will I,Where money is, and I no question makeTo have it of my trust or for my sake.Merchant of Venice- -- Act IMerchant of Venice- -- Act IScene 1VeniceAntonio and BassanioScene 2BelmontPortia andNerissaScene 3VeniceShylockAnt / BassMerchant of Venice- -- Act IMerchant of Venice- -- Act IScene 2PORTIA By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.NERISSA You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are: and yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness therefore, to be seated in the mean.Merchant of Venice- -- Act IMerchant of Venice- -- Act IScene 2Your father was ever virtuous; and holy menat their death have good inspirations: therefore the lottery, that he hath devised in these three chests of gold, silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen by any rightly but one who shall rightly love.Merchant of Venice- -- Act IMerchant of Venice- -- Act IScene 1VeniceAntonio and BassanioScene 2BelmontPortia andNerissaScene 3VeniceShylockAnt / BassMerchant of Venice- -- Act IMerchant of Venice- -- Act IScene 3I hate him for he is a Christian,But more for that in low simplicityHe lends out money gratis and brings downThe rate of usance here with us in Venice.If I can catch him once upon the hip,I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.Merchant of Venice- -- Act IMerchant of Venice- -- Act IScene 3This kindness will I show.Go with me to a notary, seal me thereYour single bond; and, in a merry sport,If you repay me not on such a day,In such a place, such sum or sums as areExpress'd in the condition, let the forfeitBe nominated for an equal poundOf your fair flesh, to be cut off and takenIn what part of your body pleaseth me.Merchant of Venice- -- Act IIMerchant of Venice- -- Act IIScene 1BelmontCaskets Scene 2VeniceLanceletScene 7BelmontMorocco“Gold”Scene 8VeniceLanceletScene 3VeniceJessicaLanceletScene 4VeniceLorenzoScene 9BelmontArragon“Silver”Scene 5VeniceShylockJessicaScene 6VeniceLorenzoJessicaMerchant of Venice- -- Act IIMerchant of Venice- -- Act IIScene 2The first, of gold, who this inscription bears,“Who chooseth me shall gain what many mendesire;”The second, silver, which this promise carries,“Who chooseth me shall get as much as hedeserves;”This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt,“Who chooseth me must give and hazard all hehath.”Merchant of Venice- -- Act IIMerchant of Venice- -- Act IIScene 1BelmontCaskets Scene 2VeniceLanceletScene 7BelmontMorocco“Gold”Scene 8VeniceLanceletScene 3VeniceJessicaLanceletScene 4VeniceLorenzoScene 9BelmontArragon“Silver”Scene 5VeniceShylockJessicaScene 6VeniceLorenzoJessicaMerchant of Venice- -- Act IIMerchant of Venice- -- Act IIScene 4I must needs tell thee all. She hath directedHow I shall take her from her father's house,What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with,What page's suit she hath in readiness.If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven,It will be for his gentle daughter's sake:. . . Come, go with me; peruse this as thou goest:Fair Jessica shall be my torch-bearer.Merchant of Venice- -- Act IIMerchant of Venice- -- Act IIScene 1BelmontCaskets Scene 2VeniceLanceletScene 7BelmontMorocco“Gold”Scene 8VeniceLanceletScene 3VeniceJessicaLanceletScene 4VeniceLorenzoScene 9BelmontArragon“Silver”Scene 5VeniceShylockJessicaScene 6VeniceLorenzoJessicaMerchant of Venice- -- Act IIMerchant of Venice- -- Act IIScene 7All that glitters is not gold;Often have you heard that told:Many a man his life hath soldBut my outside to behold:Gilded tombs do worms enfold.Had you been as wise as bold,Young in limbs, in judgment old,Your answer had not been inscroll'd:Fare you well; your suit is cold.Merchant of Venice- -- Act IIMerchant of Venice- -- Act IIScene 1BelmontCaskets Scene 2VeniceLanceletScene 7BelmontMorocco“Gold”Scene 8VeniceLanceletScene 3VeniceJessicaLanceletScene 4VeniceLorenzoScene 9BelmontArragon“Silver”Scene 5VeniceShylockJessicaScene 6VeniceLorenzoJessicaMerchant of Venice- -- Act IIMerchant of Venice- -- Act IIScene 9What's here? the portrait of a blinking idiot,Presenting me a schedule! I will read it.How much unlike art thou to Portia!How much unlike my hopes and my