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" How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down (The rate of usance here with us in Venice. "
"Elocutionary Manual.": The Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and ... - Page 202
by Alexander Melville Bell - 1878 - 243 pages
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Rescripting Shakespeare: The Text, the Director, and Modern Productions

Alan C. Dessen - 2002 - 284 pages
...Shylock's image - most commonly cutting or adjusting his "fawning publican" aside in 1.3 (often omitted is "If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him" - 46-47) and Jessica's speech on her father's hatred of Antonio (3.2.284-9o). As Ralph Berry notes,...
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The Merchant of Venice: New Critical Essays

John W. Mahon, Ellen Macleod Mahon - 2002 - 476 pages
...this respect are the lines which many directors have taken to he an unamhiguous expression of intent: "If I can catch him once upon the hip / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I hear him." So difficult were these words to fit into Thacker's conception of Shylock as an essentially...
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Shakespeare in Performance: A Collection of Essays

Frank Occhiogrosso - 2003 - 180 pages
...trial. Shylock reveals his motives in an early aside to the audience, when he spies Antonio: I hate him for he is a Christian: But more, for that in low simplicity...us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, l will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. (l.3.34-39)3 By the l590s, of course, Jews who openly...
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Shakespeare's Daughters

Sharon Hamilton - 2003 - 196 pages
...audience on his "ancient grudge" against the merchant Antonio suggest his tangle of attitudes: I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity...money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here in Venice [I.iii. 38-41]. For the Christians, usury is not only unsavory but sinful — on the grounds,...
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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - 2003 - 156 pages
...meet him] This is Signior Antonio. SHYLOCK [Asufe] How like a fawning publican he looks. I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis and brings down 35 The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, 38 ancient both...
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Spiritual Culture in the Corporate Drama: To Revolutionise Role Excellence ...

Nagam Atthreya - 2003 - 147 pages
...such as the following, if not to the same intensity but to a lesser intensity, cross your mind? 'If 1 catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.' Here is shown a second method for handling aroused emotions as in case (3) above. In this case, as...
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A Case for Shylock: Around the World with Shakespeare's Jew

Gareth Armstrong - 2004 - 224 pages
...their attempt to make him more sympathetic, including this speech: PLAYING WITH PARANOIA I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity...hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him ...! I couldn't help feeling in retrospect that that was cheating. Olivier's performance is most famous...
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The Merchant of Venice

Tanya Grosz - 2004 - 72 pages
...following: but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you." Act one, Scene 3, lines 30-34 2. "If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him . . . Cursed be my tribe, If I forgive him!" Act one, Scene 3, lines 41, 42, 46, and 47 3. ". ... let...
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Shakespeare in China

Murray J. Levith - 2004 - 174 pages
...Shylock and the Christians. In Act I, for example, Shylock's lines referring to Antonio, 'I hate him for he is a Christian:/ But more, for that in low simplicity/ He lends out money gratis' (iii, 42-44), become, 'I hate him for that in low simplicity/ He lends out money gratis' (quoted in...
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A Dictionary of the Bible: Volume II: (Part I: Feign -- Hyssop)

James Hastings - 2004 - 464 pages
...Jn 2* (Sia rk with inf.) ; 2 Th 2" (Ari). Cf. Shaks. Mer. of Venice, I. iii. 43— ' I hate him (or he Is a Christian, But more for that In low simplicity, He lends out money grati«.' (4) For to : The infinitive of purpose used often to be strengthened by for, an idiom that...
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