{"id":9278,"date":"2025-11-09T16:11:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9278"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:15:11","slug":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-act-i-scene-i-18","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9278","title":{"rendered":"The Merchant of Venice: Act III, Scene i"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Merchant of Venice.         Act 3, Scene 1.      Shylock<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(This text is featured in our interview with Saul Rubinek<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here to open up a First Folio version<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

52.  \u2026.if it will feed nothing else,
53.  it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and
54.  hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses,
55.  mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted
56.  my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies\u2014
57.  and what\u2019s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not
58.  a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions,
59.  senses, affections, passions? Fed with the
60.  same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to
61.  the same diseases, healed by the same means,
62.  warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer
63.  as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not
64.  bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you
65.  poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall
66.  we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
67.  resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
68.  what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong
69.  a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian
70.  example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I
71.  will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the
72.  instruction.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Merchant of Venice.         Act 3, Scene 1.      Shylock (This text is featured in our interview with Saul Rubinek) Click here to open up a First Folio version 52. \u2026.if it will feed nothing else,53. it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and54. hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses,55. mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted56. my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies\u201457. and what\u2019s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not58. a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions,59. senses, affections, passions? Fed with the60. same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to61. the same diseases, healed by the same means,62. warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer63. as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not64. bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you65. poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall66. we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will67. resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,68. what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong69. a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian70. example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I71. will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the72. instruction.<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9278","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-2pE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9299,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9278\/revisions\/9299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}