...through his self-consciousness about his assigned role and his willingness to play it: I hold this world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. (MV 1.1.77-79) Later at the trial, while Shylock sharpens his knife, Antonio accepts his death so willingly,...

...have in mind where we must meet. BASSANIO. I will not fail you. GRATIANO. You look not well, Signier Antonio, that I follow thus A losing suit against him. Are you answer'd? BASSANtO. This changed. ANTONIO. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage, where every man must play a...

...acquisition, no matter how much, as Gratiano suspects, it may sicken him: "You look not well, Signior Antonio, / You have too much respect upon the world. / They lose it that do buy it with much care" (1.1.73-75). The Antonio of the play's title—the merchant—is something of the genuine fool, the...

...sad" [1.1.45]) nor from love. The normally imperceptive Gratiano probably comes closest when he tells Antonio: You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. . . . (1.1.74-75) These lines suggest that Antonio's sadness results not, as many critics believe,...

...everything.9 In a slightly different form, the idea is repeated by Antonio in The Merchant of Venice: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano — A...stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.10 In Hamlet we are introduced to the image of the existentially detached person coping with the...

...103. 16 Bal 61. THREE Mercy's Machinations: The Merchant of Venice Reread Madeleine Kasten Antonio: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage,...where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. -William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venicel.\.77-79l When I maintain an ethical relation I refuse...

...attend on wait on (ie, fit) BASSANIO I will not fail you. GRATIANO You look not well, Signor Antonio. 74 You have too much respect upon the world; They lose...that do buy it with much care. Believe me, you are marvelously changed. ANTONIO I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano: A stage where every man must...

...compare As You Like It, II.vii.139, "All the world's a stage," and The Merchant of Venice, Ii77 f., " I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano — A stage, where every man must play a part." 4.] BEECHING (ed. 1904): The stars are represented as spectators at the play, "cheering and checking....

...Sanskrit terms is provided at the end of this book. • ACTING AS A WAY OF SALVATION l Introduction I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano— A stage, where every man must play a part. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice There are as many realities as you care to imagine. LAWRENCE...

...have in mind where we must meet. BASSANIO. I will not fail you. GRATIANO. You look not well, Signior -rated English play at dice; And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, Who, like changed. ANTONIO. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage, where every man must play a...