In Shakespeare’s popular play “The Merchant of Venice,” the relationship between the characters Portia and Nerissa can be read as intimacy between two women of a sort that doesn’t exist between Portia ...

Presenter: Portia, one of theatre’s strongest heroines ... She’s a menace to the men of Venice, winning with her wits and not with her… good looks. She’s bored of her situation and she ...

Merchant is one of Shakespeare's ... with Bassanio as the new lord of Portia's estate in Belmont. Commerce in Venice resumes, but outsiders have learned an important lesson.

“The Merchant of Venice,” rooted in Elizabethan antisemitism, is a notable exception. To finance his friend Bassanio’s wooing of Portia, the aforementioned Antonio borrows 3,000 ducats from ...

“The Merchant of Venice” is a fairy tale with a corrosive ... Bassanio is wooing Portia (a flexible and elegant Isabel Arraiza). To confound her suitors, her father has set them a challenge.

In 1596, in the liberal Venice, Bassanio asks for a large amount to his friend, the merchant Antonio, to travel to Belmont and propose the gorgeous Portia. Antonio has invested all his money in ...

Portia enters with Bassanio and a few others. Before Portia's father passed away, he created a challenge for any potential suitor for Portia's hand in mariage. A suitor must pick one of three ...

Lynn Collins’ Portia is stunning ... lending the story both its controversy and its artistry. This Merchant‘s Venice is exotic but real, mired in dirty, bloody specifics that contrast ...

Arbus emphasizes shades of uncertainty in Merchant’s ultimate couplings, including that between Portia and the charming Bassanio of Sanjit De Silva, who mines a sensual warmth from Arraiza in ...