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Shakespeare’s Cure for Xenophobia

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marco

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Jul 3, 2017, 9:42:43 AM7/3/17
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What “The Merchant of Venice” taught me about ethnic hatred and the literary imagination.


http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/shakespeares-cure-for-xenophobia

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Jul 3, 2017, 10:09:23 PM7/3/17
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Even there where merchants most do congregate, Merchant of Venice: I, iii
If they deny him justice: twenty merchants, Merchant of Venice: III, ii
To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen, The Comedy of Errors: I, i

Our merchants' goods at bourdeaux. King Henry VIII: I, i
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, King Henry V: I, ii
Of things that merchants sold. therefore be cheer'd; Antony and Cleopatra: V, ii

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares, Toilus and Cressida: I, iii
I am invited, sir, to certain merchants, The Comedy of Errors: I, ii

How now, shylock! what news among the merchants? Merchant of Venice: III, i
And turn'd crown'd kings to merchants. Toilus and Cressida: II, ii

Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh, Merchant of Venice: IV, i
A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine: Merchant of Venice: IV, i
Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant's part, The Taming of the Shrew: II, i

Nearest the merchant's heart. be merciful: Merchant of Venice: IV, i
Hogshead? there's a whole merchant's venture of King Henry IV, part II: II, iv


William Shakespeare, playwright

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