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Merchant of Venice xiiv-xxiv (Wordplay ("And all for use of that…
Merchant of Venice xiiv-xxiv
Words
Words no longer used
Shakespeare xvi MoV
"piring (i.e.,peering)"
"an (i.e., if)"
"doit (i.e.,jot)"
"sooth(i.e.,truth)"
Building of scenes through references
Shakespeare xvi-xvii MoV
"argosies" to "signors" to "ventures" to "shallows" to "ducats" to "the Rialto" and to "usances"
"Jason" to the "Golden Fleece" and to "Colchis' strond"
Sentence Structure
Inversion of order of object, subject, and verb
"The dog black is"
"Him I hit"
Spread Apart words that normally are together
Shakespeare xix MoV
"And if it stand, as you yourself do, / Within the eye of honor"
"He rails, / Even there where merchants most do congregate, / On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift"
Using Negative in odd ways
Shakespeare xviii MoV
"instead of 'He does not go,' we find 'He goes not'"
"I know not why I am so sad"
Omitted Words
Shakespeare xx MoV
"Well keep me company but two years more, / Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue"
Stage Actions
"Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly" - Implies someone is whetting a knife
"Here, catch this casket; it is worth the pains," - Implies that the speaker tossed a casket
"How like a fawning publican he looks!" - Implies he is looking at the person he is talking about and also implies that he looks like a fawning publican
"Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh jew" Implies from the line above that the character is sharpening his knife on his shoe
Wordplay
"And all for use of that which is mine own" Use - lending with interest, putting to use
"Now, by my hood, a gentle and no Jew!" Translation - "We all expect a gentle answer Jew"
"Suff'rance is the badge of all our tribe" Suff'rance - Forbearance and Suffering
Puns
Metaphors
"If you please / To shoot another arrow that self way / Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt / As I will watch the aim, or to find both / Or bring you latter hazard back again"
"It Droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the Place Beneath"