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President William Ruto has revealed that an Eldoret-based ‘shylock’ was the inspiration behind the creation of the Hustler ...
To me, Shylock is somebody that’s a money lender at high rates,” Trump told reporters after getting off Air Force One. “I’ve never heard it that way, you view it differently than me.
President Donald Trump has defended his use of the term "shylock" at a rally this week, saying he was unaware it is considered antisemitic by some people. Trump used the term in his speech in Iowa ...
As Shylock’s grudge is thwarted in the unsettling, climactic moment of the New Theatre’s staging of The Merchant of Venice, the money lender’s victim-turned-victor offers what appears to be ...
Shylock is unhinged by Jessica's defection (Testimony that he went about wailing: "O my ducats! O my daughter!," as though lucre were as precious as his child, is delivered by an unreliable anti ...
Shylock grimly remarks that a pound of Antonio’s flesh “ is not so estimable, profitable neither, as flesh of muttons, beefs or goats;” and if the episode had ended here, unconnected with ...
Were Shylock simply a demeaning cartoon, the play would be easy to dismiss. But Shakespeare, as was his wont, humanized the figure of the villainous stage Jew, a staple of Elizabethan theatergoing.
Shylock is the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice. Antonio, the merchant of Venice, asks Shylock for a loan, and Shylock demands a pound of flesh as collateral.