 How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is a Christian : But more for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us here in Venice.  The Classical Speaker - Page 26by Charles Knapp Dillaway - 1830 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michael Nerlich - 1987 - 282 pages
...the most important reason for his hatred for Shylock says: How like a fawning publican he looks! 1 hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. (1.3.42-46) By doing so, Antonio is acting in accordance with the economic ideal of the time: the age... | |
 | Philip Brockbank - 1988 - 198 pages
...foundation for my characterization of Shylock. The principal moments of choice were these, in 1.3: I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice . . . He hates our sacred nation and he rails Even there where merchants most do congregate On me,... | |
 | Paul Millett - 2002 - 388 pages
...3 For the view as imagined from the other side, there is Shylock's verdict on Antonio (1.111.43) : I hate him, for he is a Christian; But more for that...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. The wider implications of this passage are brought out by Nelson (1969: 142-51) and Wills (1990). The... | |
 | Lars Engle - 1993 - 284 pages
...consequence), but insists on putting to Antonio. Shylock's complaint about Antonio, partly practical ("he lends out money gratis, and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice" [1.3.39-40]), is partly also a complaint alxmt Antonio's categorization of his activities: "my well-won... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - 1993 - 292 pages
...clunking pun on "rats/rates," linked to usance, when Shylock airs his grievances first in an aside ("He lends out money gratis, 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... | |
 | John Gross - 1994 - 404 pages
...implacably at odds. "How like a fawning publican he looks!" says Shylock when Antonio first enters — / hate him for he is a Christian: But more, for that...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. "I hate him for he is a Christian" — the line could be made to sound almost perfunctory, a quick... | |
 | Norman Davies - 1996 - 1428 pages
...antagonism between Christians and Jews, captured in Shylock's provocative aside about his rival, Antonio: I hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. . . . He hates our sacred nation; and he rails Even there where merchants do most congregate, On me,... | |
 | 96 pages
...[Nerissa's] praise." 7. Shylock claims to hate Antonio because "he is a Christian;/ But more, for in that low simplicity/ He lends out money gratis, and brings...down/ The rate of usance here with us in Venice." He also remembers being personally insulted by Antonio. 8. Shylock suggests that Antonio is a hypocrite,... | |
 | Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen - 1998 - 330 pages
...Shylock, the usurer become 'bloody creditor', despises Antonio (his debtor), partly because Antonio 'lends out money gratis and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice' (MV, i.iii.4O-i). What Antonio, the good Christian, calls 'interest', Shylock, the 'faithless Jew',... | |
 | Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff - 1999 - 264 pages
...(I,iii,34-5). But when Antonio appears, Shylock reveals a darker side of his nature in an 'aside': I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my... | |
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