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group 4
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Portia
Portia is a wealthy heiress who lives in Belmont.Her father has died and in his will wrote that anyone wanting to marry his daughter must succeed in a specially designed challenge. Suitors have to choose between three caskets (either gold, silver or lead), guessing which one holds Portia’s portrait.
bassino
He is a spendthrift who wasted all of his money in order to be seen as a respectable man. To regain his fortune, he is determined to marry Portia, a wealthy, intelligent heiress of Belmont.
Nerissa
Nerissa is Portia’s waiting woman and friend. They have a close relationship and Nerissa both teases and advises her boss. She also assists Portia in helping to get Antonio freed and goes with Portia to Venice, dressed as a lawyer’s clerk.
Shylock
Shylock is a moneylender who lives in Venice. He is Jewish and receives a great deal of abuse for his religion. Shylock lends money to Antonio on the condition that if Antonio cannot pay him back by the appointed time then Shylock will cut away a pound of Antonio’s flesh.
the prince of morocco
The Prince of Morocco is a suitor to Portia’s hand.
Dark-skinned, he is a great and boastful warrior, whose grandiloquent language overbears all before it. He is aware that the color of his skin may not overly please Portia, but he is not ashamed of it. He is proud and convinced of his own worth, and dresses entirely in white.
gobbo
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Gobbo is an old man, blind or as well as, and not entirely comfortable with long words.
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