...care. Believe me, you are marvellously chang'd. Ant. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part. And mine a sad one. Gra. Let me play the fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather...

...cannot realize his love for Bassanio).107 Antonio replies: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. (1.1.77-79) In contrast to the interpreters of Shakespeare, Gratiano, I believe, understands this answer...

...Venice (1 596), begins the play trapped by his metaphor: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. (1. 1.76-78) Stripped of its theological context, the orthodox or conservative reading of the theatrum...

...about his assigned role and his willingness to play it: I hold this world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. (MV 1.1.77-79) Later at the trial, while Shylock sharpens his knife, Antonio accepts his death so willingly,...

...but just as Antonio's lines in The Merchant of Venice — I hold the world but as the world, Gradano, A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one — 1.1.77—9 express his particular melancholy, and Macbeth's lines Out, out, brief candle! Life's...

...an auditor; An actor too perhaps, if I see cause.' Assigned roles link clinical and dramatic modes: 'A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.' (The Merchant of Venice 1.1.7 8) Sometimes we rebel against the demands made upon us: 'Let heaven kiss...

...and they won't find a body in food and clothing! - I hold the world but as the world, Derrimanio - a stage where every man must play a part, and mine a sad one!'158 She dropped her eyes thoughtfully and sighed. 'We will talk of this,' said Festus, much affected....

...care: Believe me, you are marvellously changed. ANTONIO. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; orth Editions"- Shakespeare William" William Shakespeare( GRATIANO. Let me play the fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come; And let my liver rather...

...makes his own comparison between the world and the stage: "I hold the world but as the world,... / A stage where every man must play a part, / And mine a sad one" (77-79). Like Salerio's first description of Antonio's argosies, and like Jaques's celebrated "All...

...idea is repeated by Antonio in The Merchant of Venice: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano — A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.10 In Hamlet we are introduced to the image of the existentially detached person coping with the...