Portia takes this moment to beg for his patience. Shylock, a greedy money-lender, provides Antonio a loan, even though Antonio often berates Shylock for being a Jew. The terms of the loan are that ...

The final Act sees Antonio freed, Shylock losing everything, and Portia and Bassanio reunited ... Effect The audience is forced to confront their own prejudices. It helps the audience to ...

to travel to Belmont and propose the gorgeous Portia. Antonio has invested all his money in his ships and borrows from the Jewish usurer Shylock, against whose people there is a great intolerance ...

Portia arrives to Antonio's trial disguised as Balthazar, a lawyer. Portai has each party stand forth and questions them. Having asked if Antonio acknowledges the contract he made with Shylock and ...