...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 He...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...

...Shylock's image - most commonly cutting or adjusting his "fawning publican" aside in 1.3 (often omitted is "If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him" - 46-47) and Jessica's speech on her father's hatred of Antonio (3.2.284-9o). As Ralph Berry notes,...

...this respect are the lines which many directors have taken to he an unamhiguous expression of intent: "If I can catch him once upon the hip / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I hear him." So difficult were these words to fit into Thacker's conception of Shylock as an essentially...

...This is Signor Antonio. SHYLOCK (aside) How like a fawning publican he looks. I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity...bear him. He hates our sacred nation and he rails Even there where merchants most do congregate On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, Which he...

...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 in low simplicity...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...

..."ancient grudge" against the merchant Antonio suggest his tangle of attitudes: I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity He...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,...

...This is Signior Antonio. SHYLOCK [Asufe] 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 35 The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, 38 ancient both...

...such as the following, if not to the same intensity but to a lesser intensity, cross your mind? 'If 1 catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.' Here is shown a second method for handling aroused emotions as in case (3) above. In this case, as...

...attempt to make him more sympathetic, including this speech: PLAYING WITH PARANOIA I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity He...hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him ...! I couldn't help feeling in retrospect that that was cheating. Olivier's performance is most famous...

...following: but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you." Act one, Scene 3, lines 30-34 2. "If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him . . . Cursed be my tribe, If I forgive him!" Act one, Scene 3, lines 41, 42, 46, and 47 3. ". ... let...