As long as we’re on the subject, I want to take a look at a famous speech from Merchant of Venice, the speech where Shylock justifies, to two of his tormentors, his thirst for vengeance.

In Shylock’s famous speech below, he talks about Antonio’s behaviour towards him. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my ...

awful” – her famous courtroom speech about “the quality of mercy” emerges as an act of hypocrisy rather than humanity. And Shylock changes sex, played by Oberman as a single mother ...