Word: offing
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* Regulations: "No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever."
This play, written in 1596, is among the first of Shakespere's works comprising his second period--that of the comedies. It naturally divides itself into two parts, the story of the bond and the story of the casket, and the plot centres about Portia and Bassanio. The story of...
In regard to the characters, Shylock is unique in illustrating the passion of pure hatred. In the first act he is led partly by avarice, but as the play progresses his hatred for the race of Christians, represented by his enemy, Bassanio, drives him to the act of pure hatred...
The character of Portia is built on a larger plan than any of Shakespere's other heroines. She anticipated the modern conception of the ideal woman and has the combination of those qualities which are opposite to each other but which are not contrary. In the same way the character...
**Reading from English Literature of the Seventeenth Century. II. Mr. Copeland. Sever 11, 7.45 p. m.