...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...

...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,...

...(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...

...religious difference, economic difference is more powerful: How like a fawning publican he [Antonio] looks. I hate him for he is a Christian; But more,...down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation,...

...tragic heroes, are complex. He himself asserts at his first entry that he hates Antonio not only because he is a Christian But more for that in low simplicity...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. Later, as we have seen, he repeats, at a climax, this same ugly thought. At Belmont Jessica tells the...

...at the trial. Shylock reveals his motives in an early aside to the audience, when he spies Antonio: I hate him for he is a Christian: But more, for that...us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, l will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. (l.3.34-39)3 By the l590s, of course, Jews who openly...

...comes here? 30 Enter ANTONIO BASSANIO [Going to meet him] This is Signior Antonio. SHYLOCK [Asufe] How like a fawning publican he looks. I hate him for...simplicity He lends out money gratis and brings down 35 The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, 38 ancient both...

...the audience on his "ancient grudge" against the merchant Antonio suggest his tangle of attitudes: I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that...money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here in Venice [I.iii. 38-41]. For the Christians, usury is not only unsavory but sinful — on the grounds,...

...to back the request of his friend Bassanio for a loan of three thousand ducats from a Jewish banker. How like a fawning publican he looks. I hate him for...and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.1 Historians, I know, must be wary of citing Shakespeare for their purposes. They are famous...