...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 range plan that...

...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...

...we hear for the first time about the part that Antonio's conduct plays in Shylock's detestation of him: He hates our sacred nation and he rails Even...calls interest: cursed be my Tribe If I forgive him. WH Auden points out" that, while mediaeval theologians condemned usury, the interpretation of Deuteronomy...

...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 en route...

...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...

...and brings down The rate of usance5 here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip,6 I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,8 40 Even there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift,9...

...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 Denmark decrees...

...contained in his ships at sea. On this, Shylock thought within himself: 'If I can once catch him on the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our Jewish nation; he lends out money gratis; and among the merchants he rails at me and my well-earned...

...down The rate of interest here with us in Venice. If I can take advantage of him, I will nourish well the ancient grudge I bear him, He hates our sacred...do congregate, On me, my bargains, and my well-won profit, Which he calls "interest." Cursed be my tribe If I forgive him! Shylock, do you hear? I am...

...himself that the rhetoricians had recommended. First he redescribes his alleged avarice as thrift: He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there...and my well-won thrift — Which he calls interest. (46-9) Next he tells the story of Jacob's good husbandry in grazing his uncle Laban's sheep. Jacob...