...low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. aringly, as 'twere far off; Because, my lord, you know my mother lives. I bear him. He hates our sacred nation; and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate,...

...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...

...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...

...simplicity « He lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation and he rails Even there where merchants most do congregate On...

...contrasting productions has generated some fruitful discussions in my classes about conceptual rescripting.3 "If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him" (46-47), for this passage suggests to some readers and theatrical professionals a long...

...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...

...Antonio becomes truly implacable. For some performers, it is during the first aside in his opening scene: If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. This is a perfectly justifiable reading but it gives Shylock rather a single-track journey...

...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...

...history's most influential authors. In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Shylock proclaims that 'if I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge,' whilst in Hamlet, the Prince of...

...him for he is a Christian: ..." I, 3, 37) und nur auf eine Gelegenheit wartet, ihm zu schaden. ("... If I can catch him once upon the hip,\ I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. ..." I, 3, 41-42) Im Theater damals wurde diese Rolle zusätzlich durch das optische Auftreten...