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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Lippman, Laura
Affiliation: Department Of English, Harvard University

The Merchant Of Venice: Act 3

Act Three, Scene One

Salanio and Salarino are discussing Antonio's affairs again. The news on
the Rialto (the Venetian marketplace) is that Antonio has lost a rich ship on
the Goodwin Sands in the English Channel. Salarino (comparing Report to an
Elizabethan gossip who drinks ale and discusses her personal affairs among her
cronies, pretending that she regrets the death of her third husband) hopes
that Report is as much a liar as the ...

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