...and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice" [2.41-42]) and then publicly: "Signior Antonio, many a time and oft / in the Rialto you have rated me / About my moneys and my usances . . . and spet upon my Jewish gaberdine, / And all for the use of that which...

...barefoot friar . . . Compare and contrast Shylock, reminding Antonio of the insults he has endured: Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For sufferance...our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog . . , The gestures in Marlowe are theatrical and overdrawn: Barabas is mocking his situation, looking...

...then, let me see, the rate — ANTONIO. Well, Shylock, shall we be beholden to you? SHYLOCK. Signier Antipodes, — Shall see us rising in our throne, the east, His treaso moneys and my usances: Still have I borne it with a patient shrug; For sufferance is the badge of all...

...applauded. But there is another side to Shylock: Antonio does not deny his accusations of racist brutality - 'You call me misbeliever, cutthroat, dog, | And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine' - and Shylock makes an eloquent speech of self-defence: He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million;...

...enemies. When Shylock speaks to the man who wants to borrow money from him in the following words: Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances; Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For sufFrance is the badge of all...

...reviewed the many wounds and indignities he had suffered, these ringing words of nobility and fortitude: "Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, for sufferance is the badge of all our tribe."4 One of the foremost of American Jewish educators, Dr. Abram Sachar, has taken that phrase,...

...chaffs the agent for financial mismanagement. Here are the relevant lines from Shylock's speech to Antonio: "many a time and oft / In the Rialto you have rated me / About my moneys and my usances: / Still have I borne it with a patient shrug / (For suff Vance is the badge...

...thrown back as ever into his own defensive-aggressive postures. Hence his famous outburst: Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances. (1. iii. 106—9) 'The merry bond', half ingratiating, half menacing is preposterous,...

...rated me About my moneys and my usances: Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For suff 'ranee is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat, dog, And spet upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears...

...reviled Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For suff'rance is the badge of all our tribe. i<r You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, 109 And all for use of that which is mine own. no Well then, it now appears you need my help. Go to...